hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu ( ) (04/12/89)
I am in urgent need of both a Korean and Chinese (Mandarin with the new simplified characters from the PRC preferred) wordprocessor. I already own WordPerfect so a program that simply reconfigures the keyboard to produce Korean characters (like the keybsp.exe file that comes with MSDOS to transform the keyboard from US norms to Spanish norms) would be great. Then I could simply reconfigure the keyboard, enter WordPerect and enter Korean text using all of the WordPerfect features that I'm familiar with. The large number of Chinese characters would seem to make this approach with Chinese impossible. What Chinese wordprocessors are out there? Any help would be much appreciated. Philip V. Hull. ARPANET/ BITNET: hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu UUCP: ucbvax!cogsci!hullp OR: ucbvax!cogsci.berkeley.edu!hullp
albert@cmtl01.UUCP (Albert Luk) (04/13/89)
In article <28768@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu ( ) writes: > I am in urgent need of both a Korean and Chinese (Mandarin with the new > simplified characters from the PRC preferred) wordprocessor. I already > own WordPerfect so a program that simply reconfigures the keyboard to > produce Korean characters (like the keybsp.exe file that comes with > MSDOS to transform the keyboard from US norms to Spanish norms) would > be great. Then I could simply reconfigure the keyboard, enter WordPerect > and enter Korean text using all of the WordPerfect features that I'm > familiar with. > > The large number of Chinese characters would seem to make > this approach with Chinese impossible. What Chinese wordprocessors are > out there? > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Philip V. Hull. > ARPANET/ BITNET: hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu > > UUCP: ucbvax!cogsci!hullp OR: ucbvax!cogsci.berkeley.edu!hullp While I was on oversea assignment in PRC I noticed students were using Chinese WordStar over there. There is a Vancouver based company selling a Chinese word processor called "Tin Ma". I have seen a Xerox workstation bundled with multi-lingual fonts and dictionaries for Chinese, Japanese etc. and the Xerox laser printer prints out letter quality Chinese characters. Also, the Chinese had developed a Chinese character DOS and you can use the good old pc's edlin to do Chinese line editing. I had used it myself on both CGA and MDA over in China. ========================================================================= ___ ___ Albert Luk ___ ___ PO Box 1111 Station H _____ _____ Montreal, Quebec Canada H3G 2N1 (514) 399-4220 voice/data ..!attcan!CN.YIS!albert ========================================================================
jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia) (04/14/89)
In article <1225@cmtl01.UUCP> albert@cmtl01.UUCP (Albert Luk) writes: >In article <28768@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu ( ) writes: >> I am in urgent need of both a Korean and Chinese (Mandarin with the new >> simplified characters from the PRC preferred) wordprocessor. I already >> own WordPerfect so a program that simply reconfigures the keyboard to > [deleted for brevity] > > a Chinese word processor called "Tin Ma". I have seen a Xerox workstation > bundled with multi-lingual fonts and dictionaries for Chinese, Japanese etc. > and the Xerox laser printer prints out letter quality Chinese characters. The Xerox workstation he's referring to is based on their 6085 platform and goes by the sale name of Documentor. Its word processor is called Viewpoint. Compared to PC based WP, it makes them look like the toys they are. It offers more than a dozen languages including: Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, all European languages, Cyrillic, Greek, and a some special ones like Greek, Logic, Math, Office, Graphics. This unit is pretty much good for just WP although they offer PC emulation and a couple of other programs for it. You cannot run other (3rd party) applications in Viewpoint; I don't believe anybody writes for it. Plus, this beast is fairly expensive, at least when you're used to PC's. If you want the extended language support, get the 80MB disk with it and all the RAM you can (it holds 3.7MB), you'll need it. Be prepared to spend $25,000 minimum plus a quarterly maintenance fee of more than $500. -- A A Blueprint Co., Inc. - Akron, Ohio +1 216 794-8803 voice UUCP: {uunet!}aablue!jb Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who FidoNet: 1:157/697 wants to spend their life in an institution. EchoNet: US:OH/AKR.0