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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Greek WYSIWYG Wordprocessor
Summary: yep
Message-ID: <17649@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 14 Jan 90 01:17:58 GMT
References: <21804.9001111127@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <21804.9001111127@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk>, amf@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Andrew Fountain) writes:
> >Help wanted for Wordprocessor with WYSIWYG
> >Greek Fonts.
> 
> 
> >I need to do some word processing, in Greek, using
> >IBM compatibles and an HP Laserjet.  Does anyone know
> >of a wordprocessing package which is WYSIWYG (What You
> >See Is What You Get) when using Greek fonts?  The best
> >I've seen so far is Word 5.0 with preview, however, this
> >is incredibly tedious to use.
> 
> My experience with Greek word-processors is that those that are good at
> handling the fonts are usually very poor at actually processing words.
> 
> I have developed a set of Greek fonts for Microsoft Windows. They work
> well in Windows Write, and I imagine will work with Word for Windows.
> The set includes full diacritics as well as any odd characters I can find that
> may be needed.
> 
> Also included are:
> - A keyboard driver which allows easy entry of breathing/accent/vowel
>   combinations.
> - A filter to convert Greek files from the TLG/PHI-CCAT format into
>   Windows format, preserving all information.
> 
>  At present there are printer fonts for most dot-matrix
> printers including Epson LQ at 180*360 dpi. I have a Greek font for the
> Laserjet but it does not include diacritics, and one or two characters
> are in the wrong place. One of my students is working on correcting this.
> I am willing to send you a copy of the package if you are interested, as
I certainly would be interested.  Especially in the routines to create
windows fonts.  I am assuming that you are refering to building screen
fonts.  I am looking for source to do this.  What I'd like to find is a
routine that would take a true HPLJ font, and create screen fonts for 
windows using the HP font.

Now:
	There is a product called multilingul scribe.
It is sold by a company called gamma technologies I think.  I have a demo
of it some where, and will make an effort to find it.  It works fine.
It does greek, hebrew, cyriliic, and several arabic type fonts.  It
has strong screen and printer support, including HP laser jet.  They have
a demo of it for MS-DOS, that cripples the fonts so that certain chars
are printed as blocks, and allows only 2 lines to be saved, but it certainly
looks fine.

Cheers
Woody
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> amf@ecs.soton.ac.uk                  Andrew Fountain
> Tel: +44 703 592831                  Dept of Electronics and Computer Science
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