SSROY@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Steve Scot Roy) (06/19/88)
Does anybody out there know of a Japanese word processor
for the Mac? How much does it cost? Thanks.
Steve Royleonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (06/20/88)
SSROY@pucc.Princeton.EDU(Steve Roy) writes in comp.sys.mac >Does anybody out there know of a Japanese word processor >for the Mac? How much does it cost? Thanks. > Steve Roy The only specific Japanese word processor that I know about is EG-Word. I don't, nor have ever, used it (as I don't speak Japanese), but I have been told that it is 'alright'. What you really want, however, (here I go again, right...) is a Script Manager compatible word processor and a copy of the Kanji Interface System. The Kanji Interface System is VERY well done and is constantly improving. Another nice aspect of it is that you can use it in ANY application (well some appli- cations works better than others) and have Japanese spreadsheets, graphics programs, etc. As far as Script Manager compatable word processors go, there are only two that I know of. Niether is more powerful (for the most part) than MacWrite, and both are Expensive (assuming you can get them at all). One is aboiut $400 sold by a company in Chicago, the other is sold by the authors, a French company, and I belive that price is similar. +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ + + Any thing I say may be taken as + + Leonard Rosenthol + fact, then again you might decide+ + President, LazerWare, inc. + that it really isn't, so you + + + never know, do you?? + + leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu + + + GEnie: MACgician + + + Delphi: MACgician + + + + + +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
emuroga@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu (06/21/88)
I have heard that EG Word is pretty decent. Unfortunately, I don't know who makes it or where to get it. Eisuke Muroga University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ARPA emuroga@m.cs.uiuc.edu CSNET emuroga@uiuc.csnet USENET uiucdcs!uiucdcsm!emuroga BITNET emuroga%m.cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet
lee@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Fung Lee) (06/21/88)
In article <5506@pucc.Princeton.EDU> SSROY@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes: >Does anybody out there know of a Japanese word processor >for the Mac? How much does it cost? Thanks. > Steve Roy There is a Japanese word processor called "EGWord". I remember seeing the advertisement in some back issue of MacWorld. In fact, there is now a Japanese Operating System for the Mac, running the Japanese Script Interface System, Kanji Talk. You may contact APDA (Association Programmer's and Developer's Association) for an order. Kanji Talk lets you use any Script Manager compatible word processor. However, the only SM compatible word processor I know of so far is the simple-minded TeachText. Fung F Lee (lee@shasta.stanford.edu)
sn0v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Shoichi Nakai) (06/26/88)
In comp.sys.mac, Fung Lee writes: >In article <5506@pucc.Princeton.EDU> SSROY@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes: >>Does anybody out there know of a Japanese word processor >>for the Mac? How much does it cost? Thanks. >> Steve Roy > >There is a Japanese word processor called "EGWord". I remember seeing >the advertisement in some back issue of MacWorld. >In fact, there is now a Japanese Operating System for the Mac, running >the Japanese Script Interface System, Kanji Talk. You may contact >APDA (Association Programmer's and Developer's Association) for an order. >Kanji Talk lets you use any Script Manager compatible word processor. >However, the only SM compatible word processor I know of so far is >the simple-minded TeachText. > >Fung F Lee (lee@shasta.stanford.edu) Yes, there is a Japanese word processor called "EG Word". It first came on the market in 1985 and was upgraded early this year when a new Japanese operating system, Kanji Talk version 2.0, was introduced. The early version of EG Word ran under the ordinary English system along with its own Japanese fonts but the latest version (3.0) runs only under Kanji Talk 2.0 since it no longer has its own fonts. A layout processor called "EG Book" is also available. EG Word and EG Book are the products of ELGOSOFT, Tokyo. A bundle set costs 98,000 Yen. Kanji Talk is a Japanese language version of the Macintosh system software and was upgraded to version 2.0 last February with a lot of new features. These include the capability of handling more than 7,000 Kanji characters along with the introduction of two different styles of fonts. You may replace the interface for converting phonetic Kana characters into Kanji characters, which is often refered to as the front-end processor, by one of the products provided by third-party vendors. Unfortunately, though, Kanji Talk 2.0 requires a lot of memory and disk spaces. Running this without a hard disk is unpractical. If you have only a megabyte of memory, you will not be able to run HyperCard. As a matter of fact, all Japanese Macitoshes are equipped with two megabytes of RAM. Since APDA doesn't distribute Kanji Talk 2.0 yet according to the April issue of its newsletter, you have to look for it elsewhere. Kanji Talk 2.0 is based on an older system (System 4.2 and Finder 5.3). This means that you can't use Multifinder. You may want to use both the latest English system and the Japanese system according to your needs. This is done by using "System Switcher" made by Canon. You may contact Japanese Language Service for ordering these products. It is located at 186 Lincoln St., Boston, MA 02111 (617) 338-2211 For your information, ELGOSOFT is located at 3-9-1, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107, Japan (3) 589-4951 Canon is at 3-11-28, Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan (3) 455-9131 Apple Japan is at 2-17-22, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107, Japan (3) 582-9181 I hope this helps. Shoichi Nakai