Accessing Materials for Release V Adding New Texts at a Later Date The AsiaView program has been designed with future expansion in mind. The program is “data-driven” rather than “hard-coded,” which means that more texts can be added at a future date, and will still be recognized by the program. ACIP anticipates making interim releases of additional text data at regular intervals, primarily through its website, and individual users may wish to add texts of their own. In either case, a few steps are necessary. You must first of all download the Release V texts here. Next, put the new text into the directory where it belongs, with other texts of the same type, according to your own preferences. If the text is a roman-letter version, it must, of course, comply with the standard ACIP input code system to be consistent with the other data for searching purposes. The ACIP input code system is described fully in the section entitled ACIP Tibetan Input Code Standards. If you wish to view the text in the native Tibetan script, you must obtain or create a Tibetan script version, or “RTF” file, and this file too must be placed in the proper directory. The directory for RTF files is normally a subdirectory named “RTF” under the directory in which the roman-letter version of a text is stored.   Adding New Texts to the ACIP Master Catalog ACIP continues to input a large amount of data each month, and there will be more available by the time you read this user manual. In order for you to successfully view or search any new files, they must first be added to the ACIP Master Catalog. This also applies to any text that you type in yourself. The file must first of all be included in the correct directory, the one you have specified in “File location preferences” under the “File” option of the main menu. The file must have the correct name and extension, as specified in the ACIP file nomenclature conventions section. And, of course, the file must be typed in correctly, using the ACIP input code, also described here in this user manual. If you wish to be able to view your new document in Tibetan letters as well as in roman, you will have to use the conversion utility to create an “RTF” file. To do this, follow the instructions found in the section “Converting Roman-letter Files to Tibetan-Letter Files” on page 78. This file must then be placed in a subdirectory under the one containing the roman-letter file, and this subdirectory must be named “RTF”. You must then modify the group tree for the group of texts in which your new text will appear. This is done by modifying the existing tree, or creating a new tree, according to the instructions found in the section called “Creating Your Own Pre-Defined Groups of Texts, for Specialized Searches” on page 73. Perhaps most important, you must complete the appropriate ACIP Master Catalog information for your new text; here, the catalog number and database file name are crucial for the program to be able to find your text. Please note that future ACIP supplements to the current release, whether delivered on diskettes or through download off the Web, will include instructions and automated methods of making the necessary adjustments to the ACIP Master Catalog and AsiaView program itself for viewing, searching, and printing the new material. New texts in Release V | Additions to the St. Petersburg Catalog Download Release V files