KAMINSKI-S@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (kaminski) (10/28/90)
[Poster requested info on a Polish Word Processor] One possible alternative may be to use WordPerfect 5.1. It will print out any character that a printer will not support as a graphic character. Therefore, it can print Hebrew, Greek, Russian, and some Japanese. I think that character set 1 (Multinational 1) has all the unique Polish characters (e.g. crossed "L") You can easily have the program insert the characters into text by programming a keyboard definition file that recognizes certain keys as the Polish characters The drawback is that you will not see all the characters on the screen, since WordPerfect is limited o standard characters. You can see it in the print preview screen and it will give you the output.
mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) (11/01/90)
In article <12633182822012@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> KAMINSKI-S@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (kaminski) writes: >[Poster requested info on a Polish Word Processor] > >One possible alternative may be to use WordPerfect 5.1. It will print out any >character that a printer will not support as a graphic character. Therefore, >it can print Hebrew, Greek, Russian, and some Japanese. I think that character >set 1 (Multinational 1) has all the unique Polish characters (e.g. crossed "L") >The drawback is that you will not see all the characters on the screen, >since WordPerfect is limited to standard characters. If WordPerfect won't do it, ChiWriter will! ChiWriter is supposed to be a scientific wordprocessor, but because it's (essentially) true WYSIWIG, it's an excellent multilingual wordprocessor as well. The default keymappings for international character sets even makes sense! (Unlike WordPerfect...) ChiWriter is unfortunately a little hard to find. Just in case you have trouble that way, here's the address of the manufacturer: Horstmann Software Design Corporation P.O. Box 5039 San Jose, CA 95150