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From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: help, want kanji
Message-ID: <11010057@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 89 15:47:13 GMT
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> Hi, can someone send me info on where I can get word processing programs
> that use kanji?  Do I need to install exotic stuff into my system?
> If so then where do I go for those things? thanks for any info! 
> -mark
>   

APDA.  I got their KANJI/ScriptManager combo about a year ago.  Never
used it much as there was no cheap word-processor that worked with it.
Regular word-processors could usually handle insert, but editing was
exciting, to say the least.  They supplied a 4.2-based system to use
with it, but I believe people have managed to copy appropriate resources
from there to a 6.0.2 system and have it work okay.  Check the APDALog,
there may be a newer version available these days.

APDA membership cost abut $20 then, then there was about $25 or $30 for
the software, and some whopping great shipping charge ($6 ??).  A lot of
overhead costs for the "privilege" of dealing with one of the slower
organizations I've dealt with.  Things may have changed since then.  I
dunno', 'cause I'm letting my membership lapse.

As for the word processor itself, I believe there's been some traffic on
the net of late about specialty WPs that "understand" kanji.  I would
like a version of WriteNow that handled kanji, myself.

Scott "RiceHead" (kome-atama==bei-zu) Bayes