Getting Started

If you haven't seen it, consider watching the 10-minute demo video.

After installing, take a look at Customization to make Tollerus your own.

Best Setup Sequence

There's a certain sequence that's recommended for initial setup with Tollerus:

1. SVG Font
2. Glyphs & Keyboards
3. Grammar
4. Inflection Tables
5. Auto-Inflection (if applicable)
6. Word Entries

Why this setup sequence?

This sequence saves work and avoids some pain points or incomplete data. For example:

• If you create word entries before setting up a neography, then you can't capture native spellings for those words at creation time. So after you add a neography you'll have to revise all prior entries.
• Even if you create a neography and add a font, if you don't create a keyboard before adding word entries, then you won't benefit from the virtual keyboard when adding the native spellings.
• If you try to create a neography keyboard before adding a font, then you won't benefit from the "extract from SVG" feature that automatically populates the keyboard for you.
• If you do almost anything with your neography before adding a font, then you won't benefit from proper glyph rendering onscreen. (At best, you'll have to identify the glyphs by hexidecimal or some other indirect means; at worst, your browser will show a blank square for each glyph and you'll be editing blind.)
• If you try to add word entries before setting up the grammar, you won't be able to create any lexemes.
• If you try to add word entries before setting up inflection tables, Tollerus can't guide and support adding the proper word forms. (And auto-inflection obviously can't work either.)

Note on localization

If you are using Tollerus in a non-English locale, there are a few keys you may want to change in your config/tollerus.php file.

Besides translating these, if your locale does not use the Latin alphabet then you may instead want them to say "transliteration" and "transliterated", or some term specific to your locale's writing system.

This array of word class names is used for UI hinting when configuring auto-inflection. For more information, see Auto-Inflection under the heading "Select particle."