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Hypercontext is an awesome, free Mac software, that is part of the category Science & Education with subcategory Languages & Translators.

More about Hypercontext

Since we added this program to our catalog in 2007, it has achieved 1,907 downloads, and last week it achieved 0 downloads.

Hypercontext is available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and former versions, and you can get it only in English. Its current version is 0.7 and was updated on 6/21/2007.

About the download, Hypercontext is a light program that requires less storage space than many software in the section Science & Education.

Hypercontext was designed as a software tool to help with a process known as “hypertexting.” When a file is hypertexted, the Tibetan words in the file are connected with the English words that they correspond to. These hypertexted files will then be used to create a Tibetan-English dictionary.

A “contextual dictionary,” in contrast to an ordinary dictionary, shows words in a variety of contexts. Being able to interactively browse multiple contexts at once nicely depicts the grammatical structure of a language, making it an excellent learning and teaching tool. Since the dictionary will be derived from actual translations of ancient Buddhist texts, it will be able to offer deep insights into how a text was translated, and what the text means.

The built-in dictionary that comes with Hypercontext was kindly provided by the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library under the terms of the THDL Open Community License. Hypercontext includes from this distribution Jim Valby’s entire dictionary, as well as parts of Jeffrey Hopkins’ Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary version 2.0.0.