sanskrit-alignment
Tools for aligning Sanskrit texts
This repository contains helayo, a program for aligning/collating Sanskrit texts, and matrix-editor, a web-based interface for editing those alignments and producing tree-based textual reconstructions.
See the docs at https://chchch.github.io/sanskrit-alignment/docs/ for more information.
directories
- csv2mafft/ — tools for working with MAFFT
- docs/ — the location of the tutorial
- example/ — the example files used in the tutorial
- example/fastt/ — FASTT files exported from saktumiva.org
- example/xml/ — those files aligned, which can be opened in the matrix-editor
- example/trees/ ― phylogenetic trees produced from the alignments
- helayo/ — the alignment program
- helayo/dist/ ― binaries for MacOS, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows
- matrix-editor/ — an interface to view/edit alignments, export them to be used with phylogenetic tree-building software, and reconstruct texts based on those trees; this can accessed online
This repository has been published in the Journal for Open Source Software:
Li, C., (2022). helayo: Reconstructing Sanskrit texts from manuscript witnesses. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(71), 4022, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04022