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Subject: printing American languages
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Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 11:42:26 EDT
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I want to print some American Indian language material that I am working
with on a laser printer.  I am doing the linguistic analysis of the data
on a PC/AT.  Output involves some exotic characters.  I believe I want
to use Postscript.

My first question is about hardware.  Which of the small laser printers
(probably using the Canon engine) do you recommend I put in my NSF proposal?

The second is about software.  If it turns out that the character-set
capabilities of the sublexical concordance software I will be using 
are not adequate, is there something that accepts essentially word
processor output, translating specified keystroke sequences into
special exotic characters, and produces a Postscript file for
`typeset' output?  

Some of the exotic characters:  shwa (turned e), glottalized consonants
(with superposed apostrophe), h with a dot under it, and the like.
Nothing like Devanagari or Arabic or Hebrew script.  

	Bruce Nevin
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