Getting Started

Requirement

Sadiss is developed using SDK 1.4. It requires, at least, JRE 1.4 (Java Running Enbironment). You must preinstall JRE in order to use Sadiss. But, if you have SDK 1.4 or better, you are more than ready.


Starting Sadiss

There are three way you may start Sadiss. It depends on your specific need.

  1. Starting Sadiss with Amharic locale

    javaw -classpath . Sadiss am ET
  2. Starting with default locale

    javaw -classpath . Sadiss
  3. Starting Sadiss with US English locale

    javaw -classpath . Sadiss en US

Keyboard Layouts

Currently, Sadiss supports the KWK keyboard layout for Ethiopic. To enter other Unicode characters, the user should use the Unicode dialog box. It can be invoked by clicking the Unicode button from the toolbar or by selecting Unicode from the Edit menu.

  • [Ctrl+e] Sadiss' default layout is KWK Keyboard. Layout chart and a brief instruction is provided here. Pressing [Ctrl+e] switches to the standard keyboard. Pressing [Ctrl+e] again returns the mode back to KWK.

Sadiss' Font

The default font is "Ethiopia Jiret", a true type font distributed with Sadiss. You may also use other compatible fonts.

Only a single font selection can be used at a time. Scaling is permitted, but it will be applied on the entire document. Working with different font from one document to another is possible at the same time.

Searching

Searching can be performed on any supported text even if it is written in Amharic or other Ethiopian languages.

Supported Text Types

Generally, Sadiss supports only plain text, but for text that uses Unicode, it provides two other options.

  1. [UTF-8] Text is written or read using UTF-8. Internally, Sadiss works with Unicode character, but it converts the text from Unicode to UTF-8 when it writes to a file. It also performS conversion from UTF-8 to Unicode when it reads from a file. To use this format, Sadiss requires that a file has a name with an extension ".utf".
  2. [Unicode] Text is written or read using plain Unicode character. Each character is assumed to have a two byte size. No conversion will be done either when the text is written into a file or when the text is read from a file. A file with this format may not be interoperable under a different environments; therefore, it should be used with care. Sadiss requires that a file with plain Unicode text to have the extension ".uni".







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