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From: emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Russian word-processing
Message-ID: <4927@ncsugn.ncsu.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 88 21:16:20 GMT
References: <235@lafcol.UUCP>
Reply-To: emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (Ted H. Emigh)
Organization: Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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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.

T3 is a scientific WYSIWYG word processor that includes Cyrillic fonts in
addition to the usual Roman, Greek, Fraktur.  It also include fonts with
various accents from Scandanavian languages, etc.

>                                     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.

I have heard that the learning curve for T3 is about the same as for TEX.
I have found that T3 is easy for typing and proofing, but not particularly
convenient for various administrative tasks.  There are some schools where
T3 is used by the secretaries (U of Hawaii comes to mind, I've forgotten
which department), so it can be used by nontechnical users.  T3 is published
by TCI Software Research, Inc., 1190-B Foster Rd, Las Cruces  NM  88001,
1-800-874-2383 or (505) 522-4600.  They offer training classes for new and
experienced users.

Ususal Disclaimer about not having any financial interests in TCI.

-- 
Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
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