[comp.sys.mac] Script Manager word processors

dfs059@Mipl3.JPL.Nasa.Gov (04/27/88)

Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu) writes in response to
jellinghaus-robe@CS.YALE.EDU:


>You are right in one thing that you mention, and that is that there are VERY
>few products currently available that support (REALLY SUPPORT!!) the script
>Manager and the foreign scripts.  There are two word processors that are being
>sold as Script Manager Word Processors (as they were designed with this in mind)
>but they are very basic in function (like a MacWrite level) and are therefore
>of limited use for many things (such as papers requiring footnotes for example).

What are these two word processors?  I am continually frustrated at not being
able to use the Japanese system (properly) with most word processors (listen
carefully, T/Maker, Microsoft, Ann Arbor, ...).

Dan Stanfill

dfs059@mipl3.jpl.nasa.gov

leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (04/28/88)

dfs059@Mipl3.JPL.Nasa.Gov(Dan Stanfill) writes in comp.sys.mac

>Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu) writes in response to
>jellinghaus-robe@CS.YALE.EDU:
>
>>You are right in one thing that you mention, and that is that there are VERY
>>few products currently available that support (REALLY SUPPORT!!) the script
>>Manager and the foreign scripts.  There are two word processors that are being
>>sold as Script Manager Word Processors (as they were designed with this in mind)
>>but they are very basic in function (like a MacWrite level) and are therefore
>>of limited use for many things (such as papers requiring footnotes for example).
>
>What are these two word processors?  I am continually frustrated at not being
>able to use the Japanese system (properly) with most word processors (listen
>carefully, T/Maker, Microsoft, Ann Arbor, ...).
>
	Right now I only know of two products that are being sold as Script Manager
Compatable Word Processors. The first is begin marketed here in the States by
Davka Corporation of Chicago (13129444070) and is called Rav-Ktav. (They are
trying to market it strictly as a Hebrew/Arabic Word Processor, but it uses
the Script Manager and should work just fine with the Japanese System too...
	The other product is from WinSoft in France, and I do not know if it is
even available in the states.  Offhand I also forget the name of the product
(I think it is something like WinWrite, or Win____).  
	Both products are EXPENSIVE, and as I said before, fairly limited in
functionality.  I am hoping that some of the new high-end processor coming have
enough insight to make themselves compatable.  If not, then I will probably
be stuck with one of there or with fighting FWP!!!


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