Path: utzoo!utgpu!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Wordprocessing multiple scripts
Keywords: Roman, Kanji, Hangul, Kana
Message-ID: <5493@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 90 01:17:38 GMT
References: <3307@client2.DRETOR.UUCP>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Motorola Canada Ltd., Computer X division, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <3307@client2.DRETOR.UUCP> mmt@client2.dciem.dnd.ca (Martin Taylor) writes:
)Does anyone have good recommendations for word-processing tools and fonts
)to allow one to write a book in English which has substantial interpolations
)in Kanji, Kana and Hangul?  ...
)Neither, so far as I can see, is it
)simply a question of getting the right fonts (though maybe that is all there
)is to it--if so, let me know, please).

I'll post, since I don't know what I'm talking about :-)

It *should* be a matter of getting the correct typefaces and word-processor.
The key is that the font metrics are complete, with respect to bearings
and display direction (which determine whether the chars. are displayed
left-to-right, top-to-bottom, etc.), and that the software recognizes and
uses this information. Unfortunately, I don't know of any such software.
You might try working backwards, i.e., contacting the manufacturer of
the desired fonts and asking them what packages work with their stuff.

Good luck.


-- 
Frank Kolnick,
Basis Computer Systems Inc.
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