Pathway has been designed with the following features to make publishing dictionary and scripture data easy.

• Leverage the knowledge of our publishing staff to help field teams have:
• Expert designed layouts (language/page size etc)
• Knowledge about publisher constraints and layout constraints
• Provide the field user one-button output options
• Empower the project manager to adjust output if necessary.
• Give acceptable defaults for pictures and headers
• Handle a mixture of left-to-right and right-to-left text
• Use Unicode and Graphite font technologies

Integration

Pathway has been integrated into the user interfaces of SIL FieldWorks (Language Explorer and Translation Editor) and Paratext.

For more information, see about how Pathway is used from Fieldworks or Paratext (or by itself).

Output Media

Pathway can create word processor, typeset, mobile, and smart device output.

For more information, see about how Pathway can be used to create different kinds of output.

Content

Pictures, headers and scripts require special processing to achieve the desired formatting.

For more information, see about the processing of pictures, headers, and scripts in Pathway.

Style sheet

The power of Pathway is in the style sheet. Pathway combines style sheets from the user and best practice publishers to achieve the desired final formatting.

For more information, see about style sheets in Pathway.

Standards

Pathway leverages standards allowing us to take advantage of the work done by other experts in publication processing.

For more information, see about the standards used by Pathway.

Roles

Pathway provides different tools for managers and content providers so each can focus in their area of specialization without being distracted by the responsibilities of others on the project team.

For more information, see about the roles of Pathway.

Future

Some key features are planned for future development.

For more information, see about the future feature plans for Pathway.