---------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-426. Wed 13 Apr 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 117 Subject: 5.426 Sum: Chinese software for the mac Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 10:58:40 +0100 From: wcli@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: summary: chinese software for the mac -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 10:58:40 +0100 From: wcli@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: summary: chinese software for the mac ** CHINESE software for the Apple MACINTOSH ** My thanks to all those who provided information on Chinese software for the Mac, which is summarized below: * Apple's CHINESE LANGUAGE KIT requirements: system 7.1 5 MB RAM 17 MB hard disk space characters: supports traditional and simplified characters (simplified characters come in more fonts) input methods: pinyin, canjie, da-yi, chuyin compatible WPs: WordPerfect 3.0, NisusWriter, ClarisWorks (Chin. vers.) (does not work well with MicrosoftWord) fonts: includes several truetype faces drawback: no word bank price: USD $197 to $ 239 available from: Apple, or MacConnection (tel 1-800-800-2222) recommended by: Nancy Frishberg Hao-yang Wang Shu-ing Shyu Yuji Nakazato Lance Eccles Yang Jian * NISUS WRITER is recommended by Yan Jian price: USD $180 to 280 from: Nisus Softward, Inc. (phone) 619-418-1477, (fax) 619-481-6154 more info from: ccnet-l@uga.cc.uga.edu * XIA LI BA REN is recommended by Dr. Hua Lin from: Cheng & Tsui Company 25 West Street Boston, MA 02111, U. S. A. * the newest version of MACCHINA from GREAT EASTERN (Qiyi) fonts: truetype faces recommended by: Randy LaPolla * MACWRITE CHINESE, ZHONGWEN TALK, CHINATALK, NJ STAR (Mac version) recommended by: W. Frick more info from: alt.chinese.computing@anon.penet.fi * MACCHINESE, a Chinese font in traditional, Mandarin and Cantonese styles input: pinyin, radicals or telegraph codes from: (1) Linguist's Software, Box 580, Edmonds WA 98020 USA (phone) 1-206-775-1130, (fax) 1-206-771-5911 (2) Ecological Linguistics, PO Box 15156 Washington D. C. 20003 price: $99.95 each, or $139.95 for 2, or 159.95 for all three. characters: over 6000 traditional characters recommended by: Alan Cienki Marc Picard Thor S. Nilsen * TURBOWRITER CHINESE TRADITIONAL and TURBOWRITER CHINESE SIMPLIFIED from: Trans Pacific Software requirements: 2 MB RAM 20 MB hard disk space Apple Chinese traditional operating system or Apple Chinese simplified operating system recommended by: Alison Moore * Information on a CHINESE SYSTEM (44 MB, with 12 fonts) can be obtained from George Gale * Apple's WORLDSCRIPT includes two system extensions, I and II, or which II is for 2-byte charater set languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Recommended by Jill Hart * SPDOS, CHINASTAR (for Windows), WINDOWS 3.1C (Chin. vers.) & WINNER (for Windows) are available for the IBM PC. From Yan Jian Wen-Chao Li Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University Oxford OX2 6QA ENGLAND -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-426.