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From: calvinc@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Calvin Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word with ChineseTalk
Message-ID: <1990Jul15.234016.7511@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 90 23:40:16 GMT
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In article <1990Jul15.094927.21484@agate.berkeley.edu> dankg@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) writes:
>In article <1990Jul14.211439.22951@agate.berkeley.edu>,
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>	I do not have ChineseTalk but since I have KanjiTalk, the Japanese
>Mac OS and it has many things in common let me discuss about it.
>	ChineseTalk is SUPPOSED to work fine with Word 4.0 as my KanjiTalk
>works fine with it.  Thanks to Script Manager, the only thing you have
>to change to localize language is replacing OS under Mac, as long as the

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case I tried out with. MS-Word
produced the wrong words from my entries.  When I tried to copy Chinese text
via the clipboard, some characters were copied wrongly. The gloassary
insert date features do work.  Do you have the same problems with Kanji-Talk?
Do you think it is a good idea to approach Microsoft since they are
not noted for giving good service?

Further I can't format the Chinese characters the way that's natural like
having them arranged in neat rows and columns. But for that I'd think
I'll need a more specialized Chinese word processor. I'm not sure about
compatibility issues if I were to cut and paste between that and graphics
programs.
>	ImageWriter is no problem since it uses QuickDraw also.  For LaserWrite
>you'll have to wait:  If you were to use KanjiTalk Japanese PostScript
>and LaserWrite NTX-J are both available.  But that's not true for Chinese
>and I don't know when Chinese Postscript or Chinese Truetype will be
>availabe...
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I have in fact seen the Chinese LaserWriter called the LaserWriter NTX-A or
something at MacWorld Singapore last year. They were still having the beta
release of ChineseTalk 6.0 then so there were some unacceptable printing flaws
(overlapped characters etc). There was also a customized version of PageMaker
but I didn't check what exactly it could do. Beside the standard complement
of Apple fonts, are there other fonts?
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