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Supported platforms

If you are familiar with a word processor, such as Microsoft Word, you will immediately understand how to use Babylon. The standard features of a word processor and most computer programs, such as cut-and-paste, are implemented by Babylon.

Language Specific Features

• One touch typing for all letter shapes: Babylon chooses the correct shape of a letter based on its location in a word
• Manual adjustment of vowel positions: each vowel position can be manually adjusted in any direction
• Full ligature support: all ligatures are supported
• Ligature control: each ligature can be enabled or disabled individually
• Assyrian spelling checker
• Assyrian calendar support
• Custom vowel colors: vowels can be shown in a different color
• One touch vowel typing: the correct vowel is used based on the current Assyrian font (Eastern or Western)
• Vowel conversion: convert vowels between Eastern and Western Assyrian
• 56 Assyrian fonts, with correct italic support (i.e., italics lean to the left)

General Features

• Runs on Windows, Macintosh, Linux and any platform that supports Java
• Generates PDF files, no other software required
• Reads and writes OpenDocument format files
• Auto corrects misspelled words
• Undo/Redo
• Search and Replace in all supported languages
• Full clipboard support
• Zoom 10-500%
• Headers, Footers
• Sections
• Footnotes, Endnotes
• Page numbers in all supported languages
• Date and time in all supported languages
• Full font support: size, bold, italic, 9 underline styles, super/subscript
• Document Encryption
• Columns
• Bullets
• Paragraphs: line spacing, spacing before and after, widow/orphan, page break and keep lines together control, left right margins, hanging indent
• Spelling checker Assyrian and 62 other languages
• User defined dictionaries for spell checking
• Styles support: define a style and apply it to one or more paragraphs
• Extensive customization options
• And much more