bairoch@cmu.unige.ch (Amos Bairoch) (06/22/89)
Is anyone aware of the existence of a word processor on IBM PC system that can work both in "latin" characters and in cyrillic (russian) ? If yes , by whom is it available?
eric@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Eric Wertz) (06/28/89)
I thought that I remember hearing that MicroPro, the company that did (gasp) WordStar, was working on or had completed, a Cyrillic alphabet version. I imagine that it also required one to have a resonable display card -- a Hercules card, more than likely. I'd be surprised if someone has *not* gotten MacWrite or a similar WYSIWYG word processor to be able to deal with Cyrillic (or any other eight-bit left-to-right character set, for that matter). Zhyelayu vam schastye. -e
bill@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Frolik) (06/28/89)
I'm sure other people might be interested in this (like myself, for instance). If anyone has any info or pointers, could you please post them as a response rather than mail to the basenote author? ________________________________________ Bill Frolik Hewlett-Packard Co. hp-pcd!bill Corvallis, Oregon
kahn@rufus. (Dan Kahn) (06/29/89)
In article <110300002@hpcvlx.HP.COM> bill@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Frolik) writes: > >I'm sure other people might be interested in this (like myself, for >instance). If anyone has any info or pointers, could you please post >them as a response rather than mail to the basenote author? Here are 2 word processors that can be used to type Cyrillic characters: 1. Nota Bene: I've not actually seen this product, but it is usually cited in PC Magazine as having multilanguage capabilities and is a version of XYWrite customized to the academic marketplace, i.e., it can deal with large documents, indexing,etc. I believe it was reviewed in PC Magazine's last word processing issue. Sorry, I don't have the date. 2. Chiwriter: This is primarily a light duty scientific word processor, WYSIWYG, easy to learn and easy to use. I use it regularly. Because it puts technical symbols on both paper and screen (it operates in graphics mode at reasonable speed on a 4.77 MHz 8088 clone), it would be easy to add foreign alphabets. In fact, the author supplies for $20 extra (as of Jan. 1989) an "International Keyboard support disk" which contains (among other things) Cyrillic, Cyrillic bold and Cyrillic Italic. Chiwriter is not a heavy duty word processor and I don't think proportional print would work well for it. But it is cheaper than the big name WP's. Chiwriter (by Horstmann Software Design Corp.) ads can be found in several isssues of Byte this year. A two part review of technical word processors (TWPs) including Chiwriter can be found in "Notices of the American Mathematical Society", Feb. and April 1987. There was also a review in the recent PC Magazine review of TWPs, but I don't have the date. I have no connection with these two products, just mho. Daniel S. Kahn kahn@rufus.math.nwu.edu
walker@acrux.usc.edu (Michael D. Walker) (06/29/89)
You can do Cyrillic with TeX. I'm not sure how well PC TeX will handle it, though. Of course, it's not WYSIWYG. Mike Walker :-] arpa: walker@oberon.usc.edu uucp: uunet!oberon!walker
dph@lanl.gov (David Huelsbeck) (06/30/89)
I was going to sit back and let someone else answer this but no one esle seems to be speaking up. The cheapest Cyrillic IBM PC word processor you can get is none other than the shareware program PC Write. It doesn't come with Cyrillic but the needed files can be obtained from some folks at the Duke University language dept. If you'd like to go this route let me know and I'll dig up the details. I got this information when I registered my copy of PC Write. It's we'll worth the $25-$50 it costs to register. dph@lanl.gov
FYS-JS@FINTUVM.BITNET (Juhani Soini) (07/13/89)
We are using a cyrillic version oof WordPerfect 4.1 on ATT-6300/Olivetti M24 compatible. An additional character rom is needed for both screen and printer as well as software to correct the keyboard layout and to display switch the display to cyrillic character display Juhani Soini