Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!ccnysci!christ From: christ@ccnysci.UUCP (Chris Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Greek / Math character set, editing Summary: Chiwriter Message-ID: <3793@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 89 13:16:11 GMT References: <5723@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: City College of New York Lines: 51 In article <5723@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ghh@mentor.cc.purdue.edu writes: > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 89 21:14:11 -0500 > From: ghh > Message-Id: <8912080214.AA23936@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> > To: purdue!mailrus!ncar!mephisto!prism!gt1174a > Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc > In-Reply-To: <4185@hydra.gatech.EDU> > Organization: Purdue University > Cc: > > The best one is to use micro-TeX or pc-TeX. but that would cost > at least $300. > I think the cheapest one is to use "chiwriter". > It is somewhat WYSWYG. It has math fonts I, II (like 'not equal', 'not in', > 'set inclusion', 'root', 'integration', ... etc) , full greek letters and others. > Its printer resolution is good too even though you have a 9-pin printer. > But it is not so smart ( I mean not so dedicated word processor). But I could > print out nicely what I wanted. And easy to use. It was around $100. But I do > not know the recent price. > > Woochang Jin Having used Chiwriter (pronounced Kie-writer) extensiveky for a couple of years, I can HIGHLY recommend it. Almost entirely WYSWYG. A lot more Math functions than were indicated above (sq. root, and integration just scratch the surface). There are also chemistry, and physics notation fonts. Along with the Greek. Hell, here they are: Standard Small Italic Bold Foreign (with a lot of Spanish & other European letters) Symbol Greek Linedraw Math I,II Underline Orator Script Gothic Also, it comes with a font-designer program. You can have a split-screen and modify an old font, then save it to a new file. Different fonts are also avilable from the manufacturer, on a shareware basis (these were designed by customers). Chiwriter also has a nice key-sequence feature. If you are typing the same thing over and over, just assign it an key sequence. Up to about 4-6 whole lines of text can be saved in this fashion. In case this isn't obvious, I like the program. I also don't know current price, but the company is Horsstmann Software Design Corporation, 140 E. San Carlos/suite 200 PO Box 5039 San Jose, CA PS: They recently announced a Word-Perfect Converter. Chris --