The Asian Classics Input Project Release 3 Tibetan for Windows Just before this documentation for Release Three went to press, ACIP received a review copy of Tibetan for Windows, which is an effort to move Tibetan on the Macintosh, along with all its associated utilities, to the Windows system for IBM-compatible computers. According to the accompanying literature, Tibetan files can be exchanged between an IBM-compatible machine and any Macintosh computer equipped with the Robillard LTibetan font, so that both computers can be used to work on the same project. Tibetan text can be cut and pasted between different Windows programs as well. ACIP has run some preliminary tests on the program and found it to be quite exciting.
Input is easy, and the print-out attractive, especially with interspersed Roman and Tibetan.
We believe there is great promise for this program and hope to review it more carefully in the next release, once we have put it through its paces. The developer who ported the program to Windows, Marvin Moser, has included a free utility called the Tibetan File Convertor, which runs under either DOS or Windows, and converts formats between Wylie, ACIP, and Robillard fonts. Phonetic transliteration can also be generated as output from any of these standards. The following technical summary is excerpted directly from the product literature. Tibetan for Windows requires Microsoft Windows, version 3.0 or 3.1.