dean@vaxa.uwa.oz (01/07/90)
Help wanted for Wordprocessor with WYSIWYG Greek Fonts. I need to do some word processing, in Greek, using IBM compatibles and an HP Laserjet. Does anyone know of a wordprocessing package which is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) when using Greek fonts? The best I've seen so far is Word 5.0 with preview, however, this is incredibly tedious to use. Any help will be gratefully accepted and I shall summarise answers sent to me. Dean Economou Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Western Australia.
woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) (01/08/90)
In article <1490.25a76b2e@vaxa.uwa.oz>, dean@vaxa.uwa.oz writes: > Help wanted for Wordprocessor with WYSIWYG > Greek Fonts. > > > I need to do some word processing, in Greek, using > IBM compatibles and an HP Laserjet. Does anyone know > of a wordprocessing package which is WYSIWYG (What You > See Is What You Get) when using Greek fonts? The best > I've seen so far is Word 5.0 with preview, however, this > is incredibly tedious to use. > > Any help will be gratefully accepted and I shall summarise > answers sent to me. > > > Dean Economou > Department of Electrical > and Electronic Engineering > University of Western Australia. There is a company that publishes just what you want. The name of the software is Multi-lingual scribe. It handles, greek, hebrew, cyrilic, and a host of middle east languages. The company name escapes me at the moment, but I think it is Gamma production or something similar. Perhaps someone else can enlighten you. The company is somewhere out on the east coast of the US. Somewhere, I have a demo. The company will supply you with a demo version that does not print all characters, but it is suffecient for examining the program Cheers Woody
amf@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Andrew Fountain) (01/11/90)
>Help wanted for Wordprocessor with WYSIWYG >Greek Fonts. >I need to do some word processing, in Greek, using >IBM compatibles and an HP Laserjet. Does anyone know >of a wordprocessing package which is WYSIWYG (What You >See Is What You Get) when using Greek fonts? The best >I've seen so far is Word 5.0 with preview, however, this >is incredibly tedious to use. My experience with Greek word-processors is that those that are good at handling the fonts are usually very poor at actually processing words. I have developed a set of Greek fonts for Microsoft Windows. They work well in Windows Write, and I imagine will work with Word for Windows. The set includes full diacritics as well as any odd characters I can find that may be needed. Also included are: - A keyboard driver which allows easy entry of breathing/accent/vowel combinations. - A filter to convert Greek files from the TLG/PHI-CCAT format into Windows format, preserving all information. At present there are printer fonts for most dot-matrix printers including Epson LQ at 180*360 dpi. I have a Greek font for the Laserjet but it does not include diacritics, and one or two characters are in the wrong place. One of my students is working on correcting this. I am willing to send you a copy of the package if you are interested, as I would appreciate any feedback at this stage. -- amf@ecs.soton.ac.uk Andrew Fountain Tel: +44 703 592831 Dept of Electronics and Computer Science Fax: +44 703 593045 University of Southampton Telex: 47661 SOTONU G Southampton SO9 5NH England
ddoughty@drunivac.drew.edu (01/13/90)
In article <1490.25a76b2e@vaxa.uwa.oz>, dean@vaxa.uwa.oz writes: > Help wanted for Wordprocessor with WYSIWYG > Greek Fonts. > > I need to do some word processing, in Greek, using > IBM compatibles and an HP Laserjet. Does anyone know > of a wordprocessing package which is WYSIWYG (What You > See Is What You Get) when using Greek fonts? The best > I've seen so far is Word 5.0 with preview, however, this > is incredibly tedious to use. I use WP 5.0 all the time for Greek, and it's excellent. I assume you have a Hercules graphics-plus card. You can use the Hercules Fontman program to modify the WP 5.0 HRF files to display Greek on the screen. I have created WP keyboard macros that allow me to enter all accents instantaneously. Of course, you will have to modify the PRS file in appropriate ways. I have it set up so that whever I choose "outline" I get Greek characters, and my printer will print Greek. But equally well substitute Greek characters for something else (shadow, or very large, for example). WordPerfect 5.1, however, should solve all these problems, since it is supposed to display and print all possible characters. But I assume you will still need a graphics card. Darrell Doughty Professor of New Testament Drew University DDOUGHTY@DREW
woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) (01/14/90)
In article <21804.9001111127@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk>, amf@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Andrew Fountain) writes: > >Help wanted for Wordprocessor with WYSIWYG > >Greek Fonts. > > > >I need to do some word processing, in Greek, using > >IBM compatibles and an HP Laserjet. Does anyone know > >of a wordprocessing package which is WYSIWYG (What You > >See Is What You Get) when using Greek fonts? The best > >I've seen so far is Word 5.0 with preview, however, this > >is incredibly tedious to use. > > My experience with Greek word-processors is that those that are good at > handling the fonts are usually very poor at actually processing words. > > I have developed a set of Greek fonts for Microsoft Windows. They work > well in Windows Write, and I imagine will work with Word for Windows. > The set includes full diacritics as well as any odd characters I can find that > may be needed. > > Also included are: > - A keyboard driver which allows easy entry of breathing/accent/vowel > combinations. > - A filter to convert Greek files from the TLG/PHI-CCAT format into > Windows format, preserving all information. > > At present there are printer fonts for most dot-matrix > printers including Epson LQ at 180*360 dpi. I have a Greek font for the > Laserjet but it does not include diacritics, and one or two characters > are in the wrong place. One of my students is working on correcting this. > I am willing to send you a copy of the package if you are interested, as I certainly would be interested. Especially in the routines to create windows fonts. I am assuming that you are refering to building screen fonts. I am looking for source to do this. What I'd like to find is a routine that would take a true HPLJ font, and create screen fonts for windows using the HP font. Now: There is a product called multilingul scribe. It is sold by a company called gamma technologies I think. I have a demo of it some where, and will make an effort to find it. It works fine. It does greek, hebrew, cyriliic, and several arabic type fonts. It has strong screen and printer support, including HP laser jet. They have a demo of it for MS-DOS, that cripples the fonts so that certain chars are printed as blocks, and allows only 2 lines to be saved, but it certainly looks fine. Cheers Woody i > > -- > amf@ecs.soton.ac.uk Andrew Fountain > Tel: +44 703 592831 Dept of Electronics and Computer Science > Fax: +44 703 593045 University of Southampton > Telex: 47661 SOTONU G Southampton SO9 5NH England
koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180) (01/15/90)
The Nota Bene word processor deals with several non-Roman scripts in the context of a very good scholarly word processor based on XyWrite 3. The standard word processor includes spell checker, thesaurus, text indexing, text databasing, etc. A foreign language facility and bibliographic package are available as add-ons. For further information by email contact the Nota Bene listserv at notabene@taunivm.bitnet, or the sponsor of that listserv, Itamar Even-Zohar at b10@taunivm.bitnet. This is a personal recommendation that does not reflect the opinions of my employers.
koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180) (01/15/90)
Dragonfly Software 285 West Broadway, #600 New York, NY, USA 10013 212-334-0445 Nota Bene gets a favorable nod from the editors of PC Magazine in a review of versions 5 of Display Write, MS Word, and Word Perfect in issue 8.20, dated November 28, 1989. At least one subscriber to the Nota Bene list has also tried Multilingual Scholar and feels Nota Bene is superior as a word processor. I have only tried Nota Bene, and have used only the standard ASCII version, which I have customized for use with the Siouan languages of North America. Customization was easy. The special version of Nota Bene that handles European/Philological languages is supposed to be good for the languages that it does handle, which I believe include Greek. LaserJet printers are supported, per the original request.
djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum) (01/15/90)
Nota Bene (by Dragonfly) is an excellent tool for Greek word processing. It is not, however, WYSIWYG, in the usual sense of the term. Specifically, it operates in text mode, rather than graphics mode, although screen fonts are available for Greek and many other character sets. One feature of text mode is that the screen display is monospaced. Nota Bene knows that letters may have variable width and it puts the correct number of characters on a line, but that line may run off the right edge of your screen. A ragged right margin on the screen may correspond to an even margin on the printer. Text mode is much faster than graphics mode WYSIWYG and some users may feel that true WYSIWYG is not really necessary for Greek text, as long as the system provides legible Greek characters, which Nota Bene certainly does. --David ============================================================ David J. Birnbaum djb@wjh12.harvard.edu [Internet] djb@harvunxw.bitnet [Bitnet] ============================================================