Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!spolsky-avram
From: spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Russian word-processing
Message-ID: <37738@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 23:32:37 GMT
References: <235@lafcol.UUCP>
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Reply-To: spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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In article <235@lafcol.UUCP> buyskes@lafcol.UUCP (Steven Buyske) writes:
| 
| 	A friend of mine is a russian scholar and completely computer-
| ignorant.  (I myself am ibm pc -ignorant).  She is looking for a way to
| write russian exams and scholarly papers on a computer instead of her
| trusty manual typewriter.  Generally these things have a mixture of 
| roman and cyrillic (sp?) alphabets. Since she's a novice something
| simple is better than something complicated, but anything will do.
| The college will probably buy her an ibm pc, but if some other type of
| computer is much better for this (macintosh?), they could probably be
| persuaded.  The college also generally supports Word Perfect, so if that
| could be part of the solution, so much the better.

On the PC, a program called MLS does Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Russian,
Farsi, Yiddish, every European language imaginable. It's pretty
decent, requires a graphics display, and allows you to create your own
fonts or character sets.

It's $355 for dot matrix, add $150 for laser printers. Requires 640K
PC. From:

    Gamma Productions Inc
    710 Wilshire Blvd
    Suite 609
    Santa Monica, CA  90401
    213/394-8622

I borrowed this program from a friend to write some papers in Hebrew.
It's not too powerful as modern word processors go, but it is
acceptable considering all the languages it can do. I have nothing to
do with this company and this does not constitute an endorsement!

(include "standard-disclaimer")

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