Ænglisc Toolkit

A desktop application to assist in translation from Old English/Anglo Saxon to Modern English.

Features

• Annotate Old English texts with grammatical, morphological, and syntactic tags
• Keyboard-driven annotation workflow with prompt-based modal interface
• Incremental refinement of annotations
• Export to DOCX format with formatted annotations
• Notes system for clarifying information
• Autosave and undo/redo support
• Filter and search annotations

Installation

Development

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run the application
python -m oeapp.main

Building Standalone Applications

macOS

# Install PyInstaller (if not already installed)
pip install pyinstaller

# Build the application
./build_macos.sh

# The app will be created in dist/Ænglisc Toolkit.app

Windows

REM Install PyInstaller (if not already installed)
pip install pyinstaller

REM Build the application
build_windows.bat

REM The executable will be created in dist\Ænglisc Toolkit.exe

Development

This project uses:

• Python 3.14+
• PySide6 for the GUI
• SQLite for data storage
• python-docx for export functionality
• PyInstaller for packaging

License

[To be determined]