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>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:48:13 -0500
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Margo Burns <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5362 One more Chinese question

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On 11/24/99, Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz  <[log in to unmask] > wrote:
>I've been working with a colleague here trying to get him happily 
>set up with a Mac-based word processor that he can use for typing 
>documents in Chinese.  [snip] He's not particularly happy with the 
>Nisus Writer...

What is it specifically about Nisus that he doesn't like?  My Chinese 
teacher is mostly annoyed with the input method (i.e. CLK) not being 
fast enough or intuitive enough to suit him.  I even bought him the 
voice recognition software Apple put out, and he spent hours training 
the computer to his voice, only to dismiss it as not being any faster 
than the other input ont he Mac.  He prefers something else (I think 
it's ChinaStar) on the PC and tells me things about how he can "write 
whole sentence with just three of four keystrokes."  But we have an 
all-Mac lab, and he ought to be retiring in the not-too-distant 
future, so...

--Margo


Margo Burns       603-229-4666     [log in to unmask]      http://www.sps.edu
      Director of The Language Center, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH