3.1167 oral history; Greek & Cyrillic in WP (79)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Tue, 13 Mar 90 23:35:08 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1167. Tuesday, 13 Mar 1990.
(1) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 08:34:02 EST (21 lines)
From: Johnfox@RCN
Subject: Oral History Meeting in November
(2) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 90 11:09 EDT (38 lines)
From: The Man with the Plan <KEHANDLEY@AMHERST>
Subject: Word Perfect Language Modules (Greek and Russian)
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 08:34:02 EST
From: Johnfox@RCN
Subject: Oral History Meeting in November
The national Oral History Association is meeting November
8-11, 1990, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. The meeting will bring together 300 individuals
from throughout the world who are interested in or actively
involved in oral history. There will be formal sessions as well
as workshops. The Saturday sessions are being structured in
such a manner that secondary school teachers may enroll for
graduate credits which will be awarded by Salem State College.
If you are interested in receiving a copy of the program or
if you would like more information regarding the meeting or the
credit workshop, please contact:
Prof John J. Fox OHA-Meeting
Department of History
Salem State College Salem, MA 01923 USA
Or contact me at my email address:
JohnFox@Taylor.Rcc.Rcn.Edu
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 90 11:09 EDT
From: The Man with the Plan <KEHANDLEY@AMHERST>
Subject: Word Perfect Language Modules (Greek and Russian)
_WordPerfect Magazine_, March 1990, pp. 40-42 reports that WPCorp now
has available language modules for Russian and Greek. (Story by Corey
Freebairn and Ronnie Johansen)
In addition to 19 existing Language Modules (see table),
WPCorp's International Division has recently released modules in
Russian and Greek. The Russian and Greek Language Modules differ from
other Language Modules in that they don't have a speller or thesaurus
(not yet). Instead, these Language Modules consist of screen fonts,
keyboard drivers, and a hyphenation program and are available only
for WordPerfect 5.1 (release dated January 19th or later).
The table referred to above did not make it into the printed article for some
reason.
...In the Greek module, the user has a choice of two keyboard drivers:
Classical and Modern. The Classical Greek keyboard allows for mul-
tiple dead-key options to create diacritical marks on the various
Greek vowels.
The Russian and Greek Language Modules require no additional
memory. To display screen characters, users need EGA, VGA, or Her-
cules RamFont (compatible displays are also supported). EGA and VGA
require a minimum of 256K. Depending on existing hardware, the Rus-
sian and Greek characters will display the same way they do in English
(normal, *italic*, _underline_, etc.). Russian and Greek Language
Modules are available only from WPCorp's International Division,
801/222-4264.
We will be getting this as soon as WP will send it to us, so I will post some
hands-on observations eventually.
Keith Handley
User Services Associate, Amherst College Academic Computer Center