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From: kahn@rufus. (Dan Kahn)
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Subject: Re: Cyrillic IBM PC word processor
Summary: 2 word processors with Cyrillic capabilities
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Date: 28 Jun 89 20:07:27 GMT
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In article <110300002@hpcvlx.HP.COM> bill@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Frolik) writes:
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>I'm sure other people might be interested in this (like myself, for
>instance).  If anyone has any info or pointers, could you please post
>them as a response rather than mail to the basenote author?

Here are 2 word processors that can be used to type Cyrillic characters:

1. Nota Bene: I've not actually seen this product, but it is usually
cited in PC Magazine as having multilanguage capabilities and is a
version of XYWrite customized to the academic marketplace, i.e., it can
deal with large documents, indexing,etc. I believe it was reviewed in PC
Magazine's last word processing issue. Sorry, I don't have the date.

2. Chiwriter: This is primarily a light duty scientific word processor,
WYSIWYG, easy to learn and easy to use. I use it regularly.
   Because it puts technical symbols on both paper and screen (it
operates in graphics mode at reasonable speed on a 4.77 MHz 8088 clone),
it would be easy to add foreign alphabets. In fact, the author supplies
for $20 extra (as of Jan. 1989) an "International Keyboard support disk"
which contains (among other things) Cyrillic, Cyrillic bold and Cyrillic
Italic.
   Chiwriter is not a heavy duty word processor and I don't think
proportional print would work well for it. But it is cheaper than the
big name WP's. 
   Chiwriter (by Horstmann Software Design Corp.) ads can be found in
several isssues of Byte this year. A two part review of technical word
processors (TWPs) including Chiwriter can be found in "Notices of the
American Mathematical Society", Feb. and April 1987. There was also a
review in the recent PC Magazine review of TWPs, but I don't have the
date. 
 
   I have no connection with these two products, just mho.

   Daniel S. Kahn
   kahn@rufus.math.nwu.edu