winnie@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Winnie Williams) (10/31/87)
Are there any Chinese word processors for the Macintosh? Where are they available? How are they regarded? How much are they? What is required to run them? Please send responses to winnie@jane.jpl.nasa.gov and I will post a summary. -- Winifred I. Williams Image Analysis Systems Group Jet Propulsion Laboratory winnie@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov
david@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) (11/10/87)
I beleive there is a product called Fei Ma, It was mentioned in a back issue of Macworld. Unfortunately, I do not remember Who made it or how much it is.
g523116166ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (0040;0000002440;0;327;142;) (11/24/87)
From the new (winter '87) 'Whole Earth Review' (Stewart Brand's valiant effort to keep the SF Bay Area on the side of unlawfullness and disorder): For the ms-dos victims- 'Kuo Chiao Chinese characters: version 1.0 $174 postpaid from Key International, 834 Henderson Ave., Sunnyvale CA 94056; 408/247 6220' 'It allows four methods of entering words as characters: 1) by Pinyin (Roman letters); 2) by Chinese phonetics; 3) by radical and stroke order; and 4) by creating your own.' '...the most affordable' '...gives you 10,000 full-blooded Chinese characters'. 'TianMa: version 2.06. $615 postpaid from Pacific Rim Connections, 3030 Atwater Drive, Burlingame CA 94010; 415/699 0911' 'Far more elegant... similar input methods, but does sophisticated word analysis in which it will select the proper character based on the other words in a phrase. ...comes with a dedicated RAM card ... You'll still need a graphics card. It will manipulate 9,000 characters, traditional or simplified'. AND TWO FOR THE MAC: 'FeiMa: S(mall) version, $200; regular version $400; SE version $590, all postpaid from Unisource Software, 23 East Street, Cambridge, MA 02141; 617/477-8383' '...the usual way of entering characters as well as two others: pick one out of a scrolling dictionary, or type in the English word and it will translate. The graphic superiority comes at the price of a smaller glossary' (5,480 words in the SE [i.e., hard-disk?] version; 2,400 in the regular [MacPlus] version). APDA: membership $25. 290 SW 43rd Street, Renton, WA 98055; 206/251-6548. Supplies Apple's Chinese operating system for the Mac, which is a suitable foundation to roll your own program (sic). This OS is called ZhongWen (Chinese for 'Chinese'!) This summary is the conclusion of a five-page discussion of automating Chinese, which includes more details of the programs summarized. Where else but the Whole Earth... Ron Goldthwait / U.Calif / Psychology & Animal Behavior / Davis, CA 95616
jordan@apple.UUCP (Jordan Mattson) (11/25/87)
Dear Ron - Thanks for the info, but a small correction. HanziTalk is not yet available from APDA. As the product manager for this developer tool, I can testify to the fact. -- Jordan Mattson UUCP: ucbvax!mtxinu!apple!jordan Apple Computer, Inc. CSNET: jordan@apple.CSNET Tools & Languages Product Management 20525 Mariani Avenue, MS 27S Cupertino, CA 95014 408-973-4601 "Joy is the serious business of heaven." C.S. Lewis