Questions? Comments?
Have a question that can’t be answered by the online help? We’re happy to help you get back on track! There are a couple ways to get the help you need:
- The SIL Software Community Forum is a quick way to get your questions answered by others that have used Adapt It.
- You can file a bug report or suggest a feature using our issues page on GitHub.
- You can also contact the development group via email at developers at adapt-it.org.
Context-Sensitive Help
From within Adapt It, you can access help by selecting the Help / Help Topics menu command. Help topics include task-related instructions as well as descriptions of the user interface:
Training Videos
If you have internet access, we have prepared several videos that can help you get started using Adapt It in your translation projects. The following videos can be found on Vimeo:
- Adapt It Overview
- Adapt It Key Terms
- Adapting Text
- Doing Back Translations
- Creating an Adaptation Document
Tutorials and Other Documentation
The full installation package for Adapt It includes the following:
- Adapt It Quick Start.htm – quick start guide for Adapt It
- Adapt It Tutorial.doc – tutorial for Adapt It (this tutorial can also be found online by heading over to our Getting Started link).
- Adapt It Reference.doc Reference materials for Adapt It.
The Adapt It program’s Help Menu (all versions: Windows, Linux, Mac) has the following Help menu items available while Adapt It is running:
- Adapt It Quick Start Help
- Help Topics (F1)
- Report a problem…
- Give feedback…
- About Adapt It…
In addition to the items on Adapt It’s Help menu, other helps and files are also included in every installation:
The Windows version:
The following helps are in the form of Menu links under the “Adapt It WX Unicode” program menu:
- Adapt It Changes
- Adapt It on the Web
- Adapt It Quick Start help (also available within Adapt It on its Help menu)
- Adapt It Reference
- Adapt It Tutorial
- Consistent Changes Documentation
- Help for Administrators (HTML)
There also are the following documentation and control files located within this Windows directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adapt It WX Unicode\
- Adapt It changes.txt
- Adapt It Reference.doc
- Adapt It Tutorial.doc
- Adapt_It_Quick_Start.htm
- AI_UserProfiles.xml
- AI_USFM.xml
- books.xml
- curl-ca-bundle.crt
- GuesserExplanation.htm
- Help_for_Administrators.htm
- iso639-3codes.txt
- KJV 1Jn 2.12-17.txt
- Known Issues and Limitations.txt
- License_CPLv05.txt
- License_GPLv2.txt
- License_LGPLv21.txt
- LICENSING.txt
- Localization_Readme.txt
- Readme_Unicode_Version.txt
- RFC5646message.htm
- SILConverters in AdaptIt.doc
- Tok Pisin fragment 1John.txt
The Linux version:
The following helps are available from the Linux system directory at: /usr/share/adaptit/help/
- Adapt_It_Quick_Start.htm (also available within Adapt It on its Help menu)
- GuesserExplanation.htm
- Help_for_Administrators.htm (also available within the Adapt It program on the (normally hidden) Administrator menu
- RFC5646message.htm
The following helps are available from the Linux system directory at: /usr/share/adaptit/
- AI_UserProfiles.xml
- AI_USFM.xml
- books.xml
- curl-ca-bundle.crt
- FwdSlashInsertAtPuncts.cct
- FwdSlashRemoveAtPuncts.cct
- iso639-3codes.txt
On the Mac version:
The following helps are available in the App Bundle
(in Finder use Ctrl-Click to show the Contents of the App’s bundle):
SharedSupport Directory:
- GuesserExplanation.htm
- RFC5646message.htm
- Help_for_Administrators.htm
- Adapt_It_Quick_Start.htm
Resources Directory:
- Tok Pisin fragment 1John.txt
- Readme_Unicode_Version.txt
- Localization_Readme.txt
- Known Issues and Limitations.txt
- KJV 1Jn 2.23-27.txt
- Adapt It changes.txt
- Adapt It Tutorial.doc
- Adapt It Reference.doc
- curl-ca-bundle.crt
- iso639-3codes.txt