[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Wordprocessor that produces Hindi characters?

coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Mark Scase) (01/10/91)

There has been recent discussion of wordprocessors that can produce
foreign character sets.  Does anyone know of a wordprocessor that
can produce the Hindi character set?

I am presently using WordPerfect 5.1 but, as far as I know, that
cannot produce Hindi.

Thanks,
Mark Scase

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ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) (01/11/91)

From article <790@keele.keele.ac.uk>, by coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Mark Scase):
> There has been recent discussion of wordprocessors that can produce
> foreign character sets.  Does anyone know of a wordprocessor that
> can produce the Hindi character set?
> 
> I am presently using WordPerfect 5.1 but, as far as I know, that
> cannot produce Hindi.

You know what I do in WordPerfect 5.1 to produce Chinese characters (that
mixed with English alphabets)?  I draw the Chinese characters with
Drhalo (a simple graphics editor, got it free with mouse), convert it
into WP-readable graphics format, and bring it in as a graphics box but
switch the box to "character" as opposed to default "paragraph".  Of course, 
this is only convenient only if you use the non-English characters in few
places in the document, which is what I did.  If you want a total
Hindi document, good luck.

E. Teng Ong (ong@d.cs.okstate.edu)

indra@brahms.amd.com (Indra Singhal) (01/21/91)

coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Mark Scase) writes:

>There has been recent discussion of wordprocessors that can produce
>foreign character sets.  Does anyone know of a wordprocessor that
>can produce the Hindi character set?

>I am presently using WordPerfect 5.1 but, as far as I know, that
>cannot produce Hindi.

>Mark Scase
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>Mark Scase,                 |    JANET: coa44@uk.ac.keele
>Dept of Communication,      |   BITNET: coa44%keele.ac.uk@ukacrl
>University of Keele, Keele, | Internet: coa44%keele.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
>Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK. |    Other: coa44@keele.ac.uk
>(Phone: +44 782 621111)     |     UUCP: ..!ukc!keele!coa44

In 1988, PC Magazine used to carry the following ad:
"World's Bilingual Word:
	DuangJan 1.3, bilingual word processor for English and of these:
	Armenian, Bengali, Euro/Latin, Greek, Hindi, Khmer, Lao, Russian
	Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Viet, ... or create your own language with
	font editor. $69 + $4 s/h in US and Can. ($10 s/h foreign). for
	IBM compatibles with graphics & dot-matrix printer. Laser Jet
	add $49. Demo $5.

	MegaChomp Company,
	3524 Cottman Avenue
	Philadelphia, PA 19149-1606
	USA
	215 331-2748/8138."

Now that I dug this out of my attic... if you get any further.. please
let me know via e-mail.

Good Luck.
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