Introduction

Sadiss is a Unicode text editor for Ethiopic. It can be localized for other scripts with modest changes. Sadiss is written using Java. A summary of Sadiss' features,

  • Ethiopic Unicode font
  • KWK Keyboard system for Ethiopic character editing
  • Printing
  • Multiple documents editing
  • Text format supported: plain, UTF-8, and Unicode
  • Text search
  • Font selection and scale
  • Ethiopic and English locale
  • Amharic and English help
  • Easily localizable
  • Samples

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.

For Developers

The source code for Sadiss is provided in the subfolder "./src". It's Java documentation is included there. The source code was compiled using J2SE 1.4.0 software development kit.

Acknowledgment

I have been using Sadiss for sometimes in its crude form to design the Amharic portion of http://www.senamirmir.com. It has helped me a lot, but it did lack many features that a simple editor should have. I felt may be if I improve it a little bit, it would be useful not only for myself, but also for those who have the same need.

I used several resources including books, online resources, and discussion forums. The book "Java Swing" by Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy, and Dave Wood was extremely helpful. The Swing demo that comes with J2SE was absolutely indespensible. I am grateful to all who directly or indirectly helped this project.





abass alamnehe
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