krogers@esunix.UUCP (Keith Rogers) (01/04/91)
Do any of you use a multi-lingual word processor? I'm aware of two products: Note Bene and Multi-Lingual Scholar. By multi-lingual I mean languages with non-latin based alphabets; Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Sanskrit, etc. I would appreciate any comments from users and friends of users about either of the above (or other) programs. Keith Rogers Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. utah-cs!esunix!krogers esunix!krogers@cs.utah.edu
goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) (01/05/91)
In article <2273@esunix.UUCP> krogers@esunix.UUCP (Keith Rogers) writes: > >Do any of you use a multi-lingual word processor? I'm aware of two >products: Note Bene and Multi-Lingual Scholar. By multi-lingual I mean >languages with non-latin based alphabets; Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, >Sanskrit, etc. I would appreciate any comments from users and friends >of users about either of the above (or other) programs. I'll second that query. And no, I'm not really interested in typesetters like TeX. It's very important to me, as an author, not to worry about dot pitch, font acti- vation, and spacing. That sort of drudgery should be left to beady- eyed editors. I've used Nota Bene for about five years now, and have found it ade- quate. In fact, it's the only true academic word processor I know of. Trouble is it's just about busting out of those tight MS-DOS seams. At one time I considered Multi-Lingual Scholar, but I often run DOS under Xenix, and their obscene form of copy protection (plugging one of the printer ports) requires a DOS-only installation! I'm also not at all sure that MLS can yet be called a true, academic word proces- sor the way NB can. Any hints would be much appreciated. -Richard
Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White) (01/05/91)
Some one asked about multilingual word processors. I sent this as an email, and then thought the net is kind of dead this time of year, maybe I post it to see if it raises any discussion There is or was one out of Los Angeles area called The Universal Word, I got that box buried around here somewhere. I bought it at a computer swap. Never heard of it. I just collect them, seldom use. Did not use it. If you need the address I can dig around. I though anything close to Hollywood should have been fun. The Public Domain Share Warehouse has a set of 11 disks, each one a different language from a company called INTEXT on the East coast. I got that whole set here somewhere. I think they wanted about $40 a set to register, except chinese which they said they had but was not included. I have a thing called Kuo Chiao which is a Chinese Language wordstar made in Taiwan or there abouts. It does English and Chinese Kanji. The manuals are all in Chinese. I can't read a word. Many control keys like wordstar. These are all for the ibm compatible pc. KC needs Hercules monitor. My copy about 3 years old. There is a company in Burlingame CA [by South San Francisco] called Pacific Rim. They sell MLS but may have others. I put some non roman fonts, I remember Sanskrit, on a friends macintosh. They were shareware. There is a set called Duangjan that is kind of old but it had Vietnamese, and a bunch of others. Some where I have a catalog for a company in Boston that has a few Asian like Chinese, Tibetian, Sanskrit, Japanese but I think most are Mac. One I would like to have is called Tien Ma. It requires a card. Is advertised at about $600 somewhere in Canada I think. It is for Chinese. I haven't seen it, just the advertisements. alvin Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect. G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N. Government Online Database Systems Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks [ alvin@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!alvin ]