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General

  1. How does it work?
  2. Which browsers and operating systems does it work on?
  3. How is Tipiṭaka Quotation different than a blog?
  4. What is Tipiṭaka Quotation's backend technology?
  5. Why "Tipiṭaka Quotation"?

Security

  1. Is Tipiṭaka Quotation spyware?

Setup Font

  1. How do I setup font for Pāḷī International Phonetic Alphabet?

Saving

  1. How do I save a page generated by e-Tipiṭaka Quotation?
  2. For multiple paragraphs, do I have to make e-Tipiṭaka Quotation each paragraph individually?

Sharing

  1. How do I share my e-Tipiṭaka Quotations?
  2. Does e-Tipiṭaka Quotation provide RSS feeds?

Searching

  1. How do I search Pāḷī Words?

e-Tipiṭaka Quotation Answers

General

1. How does it work ?

The e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System is a web service for quoting a particular paragraph or paragraphs from digital version of Pāḷi Tipiṭaka. Each paragraph in the World Tipiṭaka Edition has a Reference Number. These Reference Numbers are used to define a range of the quotation. You can create the quotation by submitting the range of quotation to the e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System via the HTML form in our web site. Then, the e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System will return a link to a dynamic HTML pages displaying the quoted paragraphs and the HTML code used to embed the quotation to your web page or blog.

2. Which browsers and operating systems does it work on ?

The HTML pages generated by e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System comply with web standards. This means that those HTML pages have valid HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Hence, you can view those HTML pages with any graphical web browsers which support HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Those web browsers include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.

3. How is e-Tipiṭaka Quotation different from what is currently available in the internet ?

The difference is accuracy and professionalism. We believe that the serious Tipiṭaka-minded will be some of the biggest users of e-Tipiṭaka Quotation. If you publish content in a blog, you already understand the power of sharing your thoughts with the public.
e-Tipiṭaka Quotation provides a turnkey solution to both of these needs, allowing bloggers to focus on publishing new content with the quotation from e-Tipiṭaka Database.

4. What is e-Tipiṭaka Quotation's backend technology?

* Servers powered by FreeBSD
* Web site powered by Apache Web Server
* Servlets Container powered by Apache Tomcat
* Content Management System powered by Drupal
* Database powered by MySQL and PostgreSQL

Since 2002, a lot of websites have made Pāḷī Tipiṭaka online. However, none is based on the B.E.2500/1957 International Council Pai Tipiṭaka. Moreover, there has not been an option for open-standard typesetting format for the Pāḷī International Phonetic Alphabet. To date, we have attempted to give back to the Open Source community whenever possible the OPEN-SOURCE WORLD Tipiṭaka EDITION and will continue that commitment moving towards Tipiṭaka WebService.

5. Why "e-Tipiṭaka Quotation"?

First and foremost, the words of the Buddha must be accessible to all. It must also be accurate and can be easily referenced.

e-Tipiṭaka Quotation provides you the most accurate and complete edition of the Pāḷī Tipiṭaka. Moreover, it has solved the major problem of poor typesetting format of the Pāḷī Tipiṭaka. On the other hand, e-Tipiṭaka Quotation produces the beautifully typesetted HTML pages which help people study the Pāḷī Tipiṭaka more easily. In addition, e-Tipiṭaka Quotation make it easier to share knowledge of Tipiṭaka Studies among scholars or people who are interested in Tipiṭaka. You may integrate the HTML pages generated by e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System into your web pages, blogs, or even books.

Security

1. Is e-Tipiṭaka Quotation spyware?

Since you don't have to install any software on your machine to use the e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System. Furthermore, the e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System provides only dynamic HTML pages. This guarantees that you will not get infected by any spyware or malware from using the e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System.

Setup Font

1.How do I setup font for Pāḷī International Phonetic Alphabet?

The HTML pages generated by the e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System can be viewed on any machine on which unicode fonts are installed. These fonts include "CMU Serif", "URW Palladio L", "Times Ext Roman", "Indic Times", "Doulos SIL", "Tahoma", "Arial Unicode MS", and "Gentium". If any of these fonts has been installed on your machine, you don't have to install any other fonts. However, for the best quality display, we strongly recommend that you should install "CMU Serif" on your machine. You can download this font by clicking this link. To install this font on MS Windows machine, please follow the instruction below:

  1. Extract the CMUSerif.zip to some folder on your hard drive such as c:\CMUSerif.
  2. Go to Control Panel -> Fonts.
  3. Click File -> Install new fonts.
  4. The "Add Fonts" dialog appears. Select the folder which you extracted the fonts file in step 1.
  5. Click "Select All".
  6. Click "Ok".

Saving

1. How do I save a page generated by e-Tipiṭaka Quotation?

Internet Explorer:

  1. Go to the page generated by e-Tipiṭaka Quotation which you would like to save by entering the URL of that page in the address bar.
  2. For Internet Explorer 6.0 and below, click "File" -> "Save As..."
    For Internet Explorer 7.0 and higher, click "Page" -> "Save As..."
  3. Then, the save file dialog appears. Select the destination file. In the "Save as type:" dropdown list, select "Webpage, complete (*.htm;*.html)". In the "encoding" dropdown list, select "Unicode (UTF-8)"
  4. Click "Save" button of the the save file dialog.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Go to the page generated by e-Tipiṭaka Quotation which you would like to save by entering the URL of that page in the address bar.
  2. Press Ctrl+S
  3. Then, the save file dialog appears. Select the destination file. In the "Save as type:" dropdown list, select "Webpage, complete".
  4. Click "Save" button of the the save file dialog.

Moreover, you may use tools like virtual printers or screen capture software to convert the saved file to pdf document or image file respectively.

2. For multiple paragraphs, do I have to make e-Tipiṭaka Quotation each paragraph individually?

If you would like to quote consecutive paragraphs from the same book, you are able to make a single e-Tipiṭaka Quotation. However, if you would like to quote paragraphs from various books, you must make e-Tipiṭaka Quotation from each book individually.

Sharing

1. How do I share my quotation?

It is quite easy to share your quotation. You can send the URL given by the e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System to your friends, colleagues, scholars or those who are interested in Pāḷi Tipiṭaka, and also embed the generated HTML code to your web pages or blogs.

2. Does e-Tipiṭaka Quotation provide RSS feeds?

Unfortunately, e-Tipiṭaka Quotation System does not currently provide RSS feeds. We, however, plan to provide it in the future.

Searching

1. How do I search Pāḷī Words?

Thanks to the Drupal's Search module, you can search Pāḷī Words without entering any special characters, i.e. "ñ". For example, you can enter "milindapanha" into the search box and click "Search" button in order to search for a word "Milindapañha".