3.568 Arabic word-processing (92)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Wed, 11 Oct 89 18:24:48 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 568. Wednesday, 11 Oct 1989.
(1) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 21:04:49 EDT (18 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.560 queries (123)
(2) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 89 00:01:00 EDT (27 lines)
From: "Richard C. Taylor" <6297TAYLORR@MUCSD>
Subject: Multi-lingual wordprocessor
(3) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 89 05:37:25 EDT (22 lines)
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 3.560 queries (123)
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 21:04:49 EDT
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.560 queries (123)
Arabic text processor. Try Multilingual
Scholar
Gamma Productions, Inc.
710 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 609
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(213) 394-8622
Charles B. Faulhaber
Department of Spanish
UC Berkeley CA 94720
bitnet: ked@ucbgarne
internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu
telephone: (415) 642-2107
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 89 00:01:00 EDT
From: "Richard C. Taylor" <6297TAYLORR@MUCSD>
Subject: Multi-lingual wordprocessor
Michel Lenoble asked about Arabic wordprocessors with English and
/or French capability. Another person (sorry but I deleted that
message already) about Greek fonts. Well, I've worked a bit with
"Multi-Lingual Scholar" from Gamma Productions, Inc., 710 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 609, Santa Monica, CA (ca.$300-$350) and it seems to
work pretty well. It does all European languages, Arabic, Greek,
Hebrew, Russian and intermixes them even on a single line. I use
it with some fairly unimpressive hardware: Zenith Z-158 PC/XT with
harddrive and an old reliable Epson FX-80 printer. Some utilities
for conversion to and from other wordprocessors are also provided.
Pages can be exported to other wordprocessors and ASCII texts (as well
as some others) can be imported. For anyone interested, I'd suggest
writing to Gamma for a demo disk. [Since its screen mode is CGA or
better, this program also works well with laptops such as Toshiba and
Sharp. I couldn't get Radio Shack or Zenith 183 laptops to load,
though I am not sure why. Requires 640K to run.]
Dick Taylor
Philosophy Dept.
Marquette University
"6297TAYL@MUCSD"
and
Humanities Institute
UW-Madison
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 89 05:37:25 EDT
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 3.560 queries (123)
AlKaatib 1.3 is in regular use at Dartmouth.
Easter Language Systems
37 West 300 North
Provo, Utah 84601
USA
phone 801-377-4558
We use the Mac version which requires no modifications or additional software
to Mac or printer; they also make a PC version (at 3X the price!). Laser
(Postscript) fonts also available.
--- You wrote:
...looking for a text processing package able to deal with Arabic, and
possibly with arabic and french or english.
The problem is wider than purely sofware since both video display units and
printers should be adapted too.
All advise, suggestions and information welcomed.
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