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From: lai@Apple.COM (Ed Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Chinese word processing
Message-ID: <25010@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Jan 89 17:55:42 GMT
References: <8901271611.AA06203@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <11998@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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In article <11998@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu writes:
>First of all, FeiMa is not for macintosh, it's for IBM.  I only wish
>

A correction, I think you are talking about TianMa, not FeiMa. I have not seen
FeiMa myself, so I cannot comment on it. Last year's BMUG newsletter has a
review on both FeiMa and ChineseTalk, you can check on it.

>There are 2 chinese word precessors that I have seen people use at the
>Asian Studies Department here at Dartmouth.  The first one is ChineseTalk
>(ZhongWen Talk).  Actually, ChineseTalk is not an application, it's a
>system all by it self, in which you can switch between the Chinese and
>English writing mode.  MacWrite is the only word processor that can
>properly run under this sysem.  ChineseTalk has a BeiJing verion and
>

MacWrite run to a certain extent under ChineseTalk. However MacWrite was written
before the script manager and it is not script manager compatiable, so there
are glitches here and there. You can use it if you do not do very heavy duty
Chinese word processing and do not want to pay for a new software package. There
are a few script manager compatiable WP package out there although there are
not easily available in the U.S. Again I cannot comment because I have not seen
it.
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