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Subject: Epson and/or Toshiba font editors
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Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 12:08:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 12:08:50 1987
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Summary: Does anyone know of some cheap font editors for these devs?

A recent posting (HP font editors, cramer@kontron.uucp <1373@kontron.uucp>)
listed some editors for those who want to design and/or upload fonts to
their HP laser printer.  Does anyone know of font-editors like this for
either the Epson FX-80/85 or (better) the Toshiba 321/341/351 line? 

In case anyone is wondering what I want this stuff for, it's to make multi-
lingual output possible not only on my pc's screen, but on my hardcopy.  I
frequently write in English, then quote in, say, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac,
Arabic, etc.  The only academic word-processor designed specifically for such
tasks is Nota Bene (an excellent XyWrite extension).  Gamma Productions'
Multilingual Scribe will handle foreign characters of all types; however, it
does not constitute what I would call a full-featured word-processor.  Al-
most any wp can be hacked by your local computer store to produce and print
foreign fonts.  Yet in most cases, wordwrap will get screwed up for right-
to-left languages like Hebrew.  Programs like Wordmill will do Hebrew and
English, but nothing else (and no vowels).  Moreover, they are not academic
wp's (no footnotes, etc.).  That leaves me with Nota Bene.  Unfortunately,
Nota Bene's downfall is that it includes no font-adding capabilities what-
soever.  Hence my need for a separate Epson or Toshiba font editor....

                                         -Richard L. Goerwitz, III
                            (bitnet, please -- goer@sphinx.uchicago)