skl@kvvax4.UUCP (S|ren K. Lundsgaard) (02/02/86)
For those of you that are interested in results of a project to build a system of terminals, printers and software for editing and formatting of foreign language text I encourage you to get in contact with the Academic Computer Center of St. Olaf College, in Northfield Minnesota. They set up a system based on nroff, Nec spinwriters with multi-national thimbals, and heathkit h29 terminals. The project involved writing a pre and postprocessor for nroff and writing a text editor that understood 'escape codes' for foreign characters, and sent the corresponding 'escape sequence' to the h29 terminals The h29 terminals were modified to translate the 'escape sequence' to the foreign character on the screen. The system is in use every day, and it is not uncommon that students write 10-20 page papers in German or French (among other languages), with better than letter quality results. I wrote a five page paper on Niels Henrik Abel in Norwegian using the system, complete with fifth degree equations. I got an A on the paper and a job in Norway. Contact: Alex Elder Academic Computer Center St. Olaf College Northfield MN, 55057 or: ihnp4!stolaf!elder and send greetings from Norway. Soren K. Lundsgaard.