Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jg2f+ From: jg2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jude Anand George) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: help, want kanji Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 89 02:07:19 GMT References: <111900056@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 47 In-Reply-To: <111900056@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> KanjiTalk, Apple's Japanese system software, should be available from APDA for about $15. It probably requires at least 2 megs of RAM to run (I run it on a II with 4 megs with no problem). Any standard word processor can be used in conjunction with it; KanjiTalk can dynamically convert any Romaji you type into Kana, and then to Kanji if an equivalent form is found. However, it does not bestow the ability to wrap text from right to left, or vertically. Alternatively, you can get EGWord or EGBook, which were designed as Japanese word processors. You still need to use KanjiTalk. The following information is from Mark Newton-John, posted on rec.arts.anime: For Macintosh: The Original Japanese word processor for Macintosh. Romanji to kana, kanji conversion. Different font types and sizes. More than 6000 characters, with a 49,000 word dictionary. Uses Kanji Talk 2.0 Requires 2Mb $499.00 (This is EW+) (Oops, that should be EG Word, not EW+) EG Book/EG Word EG Book is a desktop publishing program for Macintosh. WYSIWYG with vertical/horizontal format. Different fonts and styles, graphics capabilities. Compatible with EG Word, which is included. Also uses Kanji Talk 2.0. Requires 2Mb and 2 drives. Rats, I didn't write down the price of EG Book/EG Word, but I think it is $799. The brouchure says Y98,000, which is pretty close. EG Word is Y59,800 Ergosoft Corp. Kiyoh Bldg., 3F 3-9-1 Akasaka Minato-ku Tokyo 107 Telephone 03-589-4455 Fax 03-589-4466 Telex 02422686 ERGOJ Available at K Electronics 1581 Webster Street San Francisco, CA 34115 Telephone (415) 346-5964 (Japanese spoken there also) +====================\ Internet: jg2f+@andrew.cmu.edu \=======================+ | Jude Anand George \ BITNET: jg2f+@ANDREW | jg2f+%andrew@{CMCCVB|CMCCVMA} | | Uganda Jorge Eden \ UUCP: the_known_world!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!jg2f+ | +=======================\ CIS: 72307,1752 Jude George \====================+