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Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world
Read about a major milestone in technological innovation of the Tibetan language as the open source software suite LibreOffice's latest update supports an important feature of Tibetan: very long paragraphs.
A major milestone in that enterprise was passed recently, as the open source software suite LibreOffice now supports an important feature of Tibetan: very long paragraphs. A long text like Longchenpa's Yishindzö (view on the BDRC archive at: yid bzhin mdzod), which consists of one "paragraph" of 153 letter size pages, now opens quickly and can be edited in LibreOffice. BDRC's modest contribution to this breakthrough is just to have planted the seed many years ago, but we want to acknowledge and rejoice in Jonathan's good work, and the consequent strengthening of Tibetan in open source publication tools!
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