wwl90321@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (04/25/89)
Hi, can someone send me info on where I can get word processing programs that use kanji? Do I need to install exotic stuff into my system? If so then where do I go for those things? thanks for any info! -mark
bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) (04/27/89)
> > Hi, can someone send me info on where I can get word processing programs > that use kanji? Do I need to install exotic stuff into my system? > If so then where do I go for those things? thanks for any info! > -mark > APDA. I got their KANJI/ScriptManager combo about a year ago. Never used it much as there was no cheap word-processor that worked with it. Regular word-processors could usually handle insert, but editing was exciting, to say the least. They supplied a 4.2-based system to use with it, but I believe people have managed to copy appropriate resources from there to a 6.0.2 system and have it work okay. Check the APDALog, there may be a newer version available these days. APDA membership cost abut $20 then, then there was about $25 or $30 for the software, and some whopping great shipping charge ($6 ??). A lot of overhead costs for the "privilege" of dealing with one of the slower organizations I've dealt with. Things may have changed since then. I dunno', 'cause I'm letting my membership lapse. As for the word processor itself, I believe there's been some traffic on the net of late about specialty WPs that "understand" kanji. I would like a version of WriteNow that handled kanji, myself. Scott "RiceHead" (kome-atama==bei-zu) Bayes
jg2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jude Anand George) (04/28/89)
KanjiTalk, Apple's Japanese system software, should be available from APDA for about $15. It probably requires at least 2 megs of RAM to run (I run it on a II with 4 megs with no problem). Any standard word processor can be used in conjunction with it; KanjiTalk can dynamically convert any Romaji you type into Kana, and then to Kanji if an equivalent form is found. However, it does not bestow the ability to wrap text from right to left, or vertically. Alternatively, you can get EGWord or EGBook, which were designed as Japanese word processors. You still need to use KanjiTalk. The following information is from Mark Newton-John, posted on rec.arts.anime: For Macintosh: The Original Japanese word processor for Macintosh. Romanji to kana, kanji conversion. Different font types and sizes. More than 6000 characters, with a 49,000 word dictionary. Uses Kanji Talk 2.0 Requires 2Mb $499.00 (This is EW+) (Oops, that should be EG Word, not EW+) EG Book/EG Word EG Book is a desktop publishing program for Macintosh. WYSIWYG with vertical/horizontal format. Different fonts and styles, graphics capabilities. Compatible with EG Word, which is included. Also uses Kanji Talk 2.0. Requires 2Mb and 2 drives. Rats, I didn't write down the price of EG Book/EG Word, but I think it is $799. The brouchure says Y98,000, which is pretty close. EG Word is Y59,800 Ergosoft Corp. Kiyoh Bldg., 3F 3-9-1 Akasaka Minato-ku Tokyo 107 Telephone 03-589-4455 Fax 03-589-4466 Telex 02422686 ERGOJ Available at K Electronics 1581 Webster Street San Francisco, CA 34115 Telephone (415) 346-5964 (Japanese spoken there also) +====================\ Internet: jg2f+@andrew.cmu.edu \=======================+ | Jude Anand George \ BITNET: jg2f+@ANDREW | jg2f+%andrew@{CMCCVB|CMCCVMA} | | Uganda Jorge Eden \ UUCP: the_known_world!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!jg2f+ | +=======================\ CIS: 72307,1752 Jude George \====================+