--- Forwarded Message from Rachel Saury <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:26:45 -0400 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: Rachel Saury <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Word processing: information to use ------------------ I thought you might find this information useful. It was put together by a part-time employee of mine who is researching all of our options so we can decide which one to support long-term. There may be more coming! Here is what I've found out about fonts in Windows and WordPerfect: Windows 98 has fonts for Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Turkish. In order to access these fonts, you have to enable multi-language support. WordPerfect: support for multilingual word processing varies by version. For WordPerfect versions 5.1 (DOS) through 8, Corel offers the WordPerfect Language Module, an add-on utility that allows you to create multilingual documents within WordPerfect. Standard cost is $49.95, although there ought to be an academic version (and academic price). Language Module for version 7: Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Version 8: Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. (Basically every font that Version 7 has, except Ukrainian). Mac version of Language Module: Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish. (Basically no Slavic languages, and no Greek or Turkish). WordPerfect Office 2000 is WordPerfect's latest office suite--the academic edition includes a bunch of stuff,like Quattro Pro, Corel Presentations, Adobe Acrobat Reader, in addition to WordPerfect 9 (the latest version) and language modules for the following languages: Afrikaans, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Galacian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sotho, Spanish, Swedish, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Xhosa, and Zulu. I have no idea how much it costs--will have to check the website again on that. WordPerfect 9 and the corresponding Language Module should be available separately. Rachel Saury Rachel E. Saury, Ph.D. Director Arts & Sciences Center for Instructional Technology 219 Cabell Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA OR 3585 Hungrytown Road Covesville, VA 22931 USA wk. 804-924-3470 hm. 804-979-1274 fax 804-924-6875 [log in to unmask] http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/~asmedia http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/~asmedia/flitig.html http://www.people.virginia.edu/~res4n http://www.people.virginia.edu/~res4n/rachel/slfk213.html xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx Breath sweeps mind. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx