Open Source Text Editors

Virastyar is a free and open-source (FOSS) spell checker. It stands upon the shoulders of many free/libre/open-source (FLOSS) libraries developed for processing low-resource languages, especially Persian and RTL languages Publications: Kashefi, O., Nasri, M., & Kanani, K. (2010). Towards Automatic Persian Spell Checking. SCICT. Kashefi, O., Sharifi, M., & Minaie, B. (2013). A novel string distance metric for ranking Persian respelling suggestions. Natural Language Engineering, 19(2), 259-284. Rasooli, M. S., Kahefi, O., & Minaei-Bidgoli, B. (2011). Effect of adaptive spell checking in Persian. In NLP-KE Contributors: Omid Kashefi Azadeh Zamanifar Masoumeh Mashaiekhi Meisam Pourafzal Reza Refaei Mohammad Hedayati Kamiar Kanani Mehrdad Senobari Sina Iravanin Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli Mohsen Hoseinalizadeh Mitra Nasri Alireza Dehlaghi Fatemeh Ahmadi Neda PourMorteza

Biblatex is a LaTeX package which provides full-featured bibliographic facilities

Ayaspell project aims to provide arabic dictionaries for free office applications like OpenOffice.org, Firefox: spellchecking (hunspell-ar), thesaurus (thesaurus-ar) and Morphological lexicon (Grammar-ar). Maintained by Taha Zerrouki.

"Jaba" Chinese word segmentation, do the best Python Chinese word segmentation component. Four word segmentation modes are supported. Precise mode, which tries to cut the sentence most precisely, suitable for text analysis. Full mode, scans all the words that can be formed into words in the sentence, the speed is very fast, but the ambiguity cannot be resolved. The search engine mode, on the basis of the precise mode, divides the long words again to improve the recall rate, which is suitable for word segmentation in search engines. The paddle mode uses the PaddlePaddle deep learning framework to train the sequence labeling (bidirectional GRU) network model to achieve word segmentation. Also supports part-of-speech tagging. To use paddle mode, you need to install paddlepaddle-tiny, pip install paddlepaddle-tiny==1.6.1. Currently paddle mode supports jieba v0.40 and above. For versions below jieba v0.40, please upgrade jieba, pip install jieba --upgrade.

DWDS/Dialing Concordance (DDC) - a collection of index and search tools for corpus linguists

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond

Calc2LaTeX is an OpenOffice.org Calc (Spreadsheet) macro for converting tables. It makes making tables on LaTeX very easy.

DrPython is a highly customizable cross-platform ide to aid programming in Python. It was developed with teaching in mind, and has a clean, simple interface. It is written in Python, using wxPython as the gui.

ChordSmith is a chordpro editor that can display, transpose and print song sheets containing chords and lyrics. It can also edit and convert song sheet formats (including Harmonica tabs) between chordpro format (chords in square brackets in line with lyrics) and two-line format (chords above lyrics). You can find many free sources of song sheets in both formats on the Internet. More information at https://chordsmith.sourceforge.io/ Here are just a few of ChordSmith's many features:

Marathi Hindi Phonetic typing. We can type Marathi/Hindi typing as phonetic. Copy Marathi/Hindi, use any where. For any information Kindly contact nitin.tkarale@gmail.com

TextStat create detailed statistics of a text file. Please view this page for help : http://www.lunerouge.org/spip/article.php3?id_article=443

There is Dzongkha keyboard for WIndows that allows people who are familiar with Tibetan alphabets order to type Tibetan. For people who are comfortable with English sounds of Tibetan characters, this keyboard offers the convenience to type Tibetan characters based on their English phonetic. There are more than 26 alphabets in Tibetan hence it is not possible to match all alphabets on just the English alphabet keys and some of the Tibetan characters are mapped onto symbol keys. Vowels are entered by "e", "i", "o", "u". By pressing the SHIFT key + alphabet , one can get the alphabet as a Tibetan lower stack character. Less often used characters, such as "laterally flipped" alphabets, and symbols are found using Alt + Ctrl+ [some key]. Special lower stack characters are found by using Alt + Ctrl+ Shift+[some key]. This keyboard has been put to use in digitizing a Tibetan prayer text that about 100 pages long. It is found to be user friendly and easy to use.

Docear (pronounced dog-ear) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping. And the best: Docear works seemlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU, and the University of California, Berkeley.

ASCIIMathML.js: a JavaScript to convert ASCII math notation (and some LaTeX) to Presentation MathML while your webpage loads. Now also simple graphs are translates to SVG. Works with Firefox 2.0+ or with Internet Explorer 6/7+MathPlayer+Adobe SVGview.

Uosk (formerly Charmappino) is a virtual keyboard that opens any ASCII, ANSI, UTF-8 and UTF-16 text file and converts words (e.g. separated by spaces) into buttons. Clicking one button the text snippet is pasted into any text editor (Notepad, WordPad, MS Office, OpenOffice...). You can edit snippets directly in Uosk, and save them as a new txt file. The snippet can also be copied to clipboard. It's basically a virtual keyboard with ability to set any amount of characters in one button. Uosk comes with some preset keyboard: Arabic, box drawing, Devanagari, emoji, Greek, Hebrew, Hiragana, IPA, Katakana, Russian and Windows-1252.

This is a free and open-source style and grammar checker forked from Languagetool. This project intends to be a full-blown software editor for French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and many other languages that enhances LanguageTool with extended rules — with emphasis on style rules —, and enables many rules disabled by default on LanguageTool project. Other changes include lower reliance on online mechanisms and extra languages. --- Este é um verificador de gramática e estilo gratuito e de código-fonte aberto, bifurcado do Languagetool. Este projeto pretende ser um editor de software completo para francês, inglês, alemão, espanhol, português e muitos outros idiomas; ampliando o conjunto regras do LanguageTool — com forte ênfase nas regras de estilo —, e activando muitas regras inactivas por padrão no projeto anterior. Outras mudanças incluem suporte para português de Portugal pré-Acordo Ortográfico e menos dependências online.

MangaED is a universal program for manga translators. It consists of text processor, image viewer, dictionary and kanji finder

The KML-Editor is an application for the generation of teaching material and lesson preparations. It assists the teachers in the creation of a knowledge base for their special subject, from with every registered user can compose his unique lessons.

ReadManiac is bookreader for phones with JavaME support.

A wxWidgets-based project aimed to make math-typing, plotting and symbolic math easier; user can easily input, plot and save/load math data in various formats (e.g. MathML). Step-by-step resolution makes this a powerful didactive tool.

Rephrase is a simple string replacement application. The default package comes with a wordiness rule file, a 1337 rule file, and an English to French rule file. It can be used on the command line as part of a set of other tools as well.

Sharada-Braille-Writer (S.B.W) is a text editor for GNU/Linux which support braille input. In S.B.W, Simultaneous multiple press of braille combinations, will produce corresponding letters. So one can input text in more than 40 languages with braille knowledge in perkins like way. letters f, d, s, j, k, l represent 1 2 3 4 5 6 of the braille dots respectively. By pressing "f" and "s" together will produce letter k and like. Website : https://zendalona.com/sbw/ Github repository 1 : https://github.com/zendalona/sbw Github repository 1 : https://github.com/zendalona/libbraille-input Ubuntu PPA 1 : https://launchpad.net/~nalin-x-linux/+archive/ubuntu/sbw Ubuntu PPA 2 : https://launchpad.net/~nalin-x-linux/+archive/ubuntu/libbraille-input

This software will help you to get rid of the arabic diacritics like single and double Fatha, Damma and Kasra as well as the Chadda.

Lectures is app for students that will allow them to use their Palms to make conspects of their lectures. It is programmed using CodeWarrior 9.3 for Palm OS.

NAT is a free universal Braille translator. It supports French Braille grade 1, mathematical Braille, Braille layout and reverse transcription. French Braille grade 2, music and other languages are currently under development.