4.0698 Greek Fonts; Arabic Word Processing (5/96)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 7 Nov 90 11:40:28 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0698. Wednesday, 7 Nov 1990.


(1) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 10:53 EDT (16 lines)
From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U"
Subject: Full greek character set on screen

(2) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 0:11:08 EST (15 lines)
From: "Paul N. Banks" <pbanks@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Screen fonts

(3) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 14:51 CST (20 lines)
From: <CHURCHDM@VUCTRVAX>
Subject: Greek Characters on Screen

(4) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 12:36:08 PST (33 lines)
From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: Greek for WP 5.1

(5) Date: Mon, 05 Nov 90 17:29:02 EST (12 lines)
From: Maurizio Lana <U245@ITOCSIVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0677 Rs: Arabic Word Processing

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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 10:53 EDT
From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U"
Subject: Full greek character set on screen

Dan Church asked recently about displaying (my paraphrase) characters
from alternate character sets on the screen in WordPerfect. I saw a
blurb for a product called Font Editor made by WP which I think claimed
to allow one to see any of the WP characters on screen. And their
character set 8 (Greek) may have everything he is looking for. I didn't
pay much attention because it's not a need I've ever had. I probably saw
this on wp50-l@ub where you could look it up. Or call WP. Good luck.

Ed <HARRIS@CTSTATEU.BITNET>
Southern Connecticut State U, New Haven, CT 06515 USA
Tel: 1 (203) 397-4322 / Fax: 1 (203) 397-4207

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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 0:11:08 EST
From: "Paul N. Banks" <pbanks@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Screen fonts

In response to Dan Church's inquiry about the ability to display Greek
fonts on screen in WordPerfect, I just received a newsletter from WP
announcing "WordPerfect Screen Font Editor for Screen Text," available
from WP for $49. (US). I don't know whether this would take care of
the accents and breathings, however.

Paul N. Banks | Conservation Education Programs
Research Scholar | School of Library Service
pbanks@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu | 516 Butler Library
212 854-4445 | Columbia University
212 865-1304 | New York NY 10027
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 14:51 CST
From: <CHURCHDM@VUCTRVAX>
Subject: Greek Characters on Screen

It looks like a classic case of bad timing:

I sent off a message to HUMANIST asking for help with getting true
WYSIWYG Greek characters with accents and breathing marks in
WordPerfect, and the very next day I received the latest _WordPer-
fect Report_ with, you guessed it, the announcement of the new
WordPerfect Screen Font Editor for Text Screen Characters. The
announcement says that it is available now, for $49US/$64CN, plus
a $3US/$5CN shipping fee.

However, I'd still like to hear about any solutions that HUMANISTs
have come up with; it just might be that the "home-grown" solutions
are better. (Wouldn't be the first time.)

Thanks,
Dan Church
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 12:36:08 PST
From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: Greek for WP 5.1

For using Greek with WordPerfect 5.1 I have been told that there are
several add-on ($100 or so) packages that will provide full screen
capabilities with accented Greek. If I can get to my CD-ROM, I will
search for the product name.

... [two messages combined. eds.]

This is an addition to my vague response about Greek with Word Perfect.
The program I was trying to think of is:

FONTMAX
ISS, Inc.
3463 State Street #283
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
805-373-0212

The literature claims to work with a wide variety of languages including
Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew (right to left, no less), but I have not
actually used the program (we are Nota Bene users here). The price
appears to be $160 for screen and laser printing version, $100 for
screen display system.

Randall Smith
Classics Department
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: 805-893-3556
Email: 6500rms@ucsbuxa.bitnet

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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 90 17:29:02 EST
From: U245@ITOCSIVM
Subject: Re: 4.0677 Rs: Arabic Word Processing (2/44)

I used in my Department MLS. I think it is interesting but limited by
its way of representing internally foreign characters: every character
on video is two characters internally. So a 100K real file is a 200K
MLS file... This greatly limits the possibly of exchanging data among
differents programs or standards. From this point of view NotaBene is
undoubtedly better. Consider also that MLS files can't exceed 30K
lenght; if you want more K's, you have to link MLS files together.

... [two messages combined. eds.]

MLS, that I criticized a little in my previous message, is able to use
the right (initial, central, final) character form, and also to format
on the same line words running from left to right together with word
running from right to left. DOS hardware and software allow - despite
some concepts laying behind - us to do some things quite well...

Maurizio Lana