mmt@client2.DRETOR.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (07/04/90)
Does anyone have good recommendations for word-processing tools and fonts to allow one to write a book in English which has substantial interpolations in Kanji, Kana and Hangul? My wife is writing a book on reading and writing in CHinese, Japanese, and Korean, and it is not at all clear how to handle the necessary phrases or character groups in the English text. It is not the same as writing a book in Japanese, which I understand is no problem with the Kanji operating system. Neither, so far as I can see, is it simply a question of getting the right fonts (though maybe that is all there is to it--if so, let me know, please). Given the mass of contributions to this newsgroup, I would appreciate advice being mailed, though I would probably see a posted answer eventually. -- Martin Taylor (mmt@ben.dciem.dnd.ca ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048 It is better to be right than to write, but better yet to write right.
frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) (07/05/90)
In article <3307@client2.DRETOR.UUCP> mmt@client2.dciem.dnd.ca (Martin Taylor) writes:
)Does anyone have good recommendations for word-processing tools and fonts
)to allow one to write a book in English which has substantial interpolations
)in Kanji, Kana and Hangul? ...
)Neither, so far as I can see, is it
)simply a question of getting the right fonts (though maybe that is all there
)is to it--if so, let me know, please).
I'll post, since I don't know what I'm talking about :-)
It *should* be a matter of getting the correct typefaces and word-processor.
The key is that the font metrics are complete, with respect to bearings
and display direction (which determine whether the chars. are displayed
left-to-right, top-to-bottom, etc.), and that the software recognizes and
uses this information. Unfortunately, I don't know of any such software.
You might try working backwards, i.e., contacting the manufacturer of
the desired fonts and asking them what packages work with their stuff.
Good luck.
--
Frank Kolnick,
Basis Computer Systems Inc.
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank