From: c23st@kocrsv01.DElcoelect.COM (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Subject: re: turkish word processors
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:16:09 GMT

I saw the material on the FAQ and have run across something that you
may find interesting, in particular for low end PC's.

A shareware international word processor, called INTEXT, is available
from your local friendly FTP site. I got mine from oak.oakland.edu,
un pub/msdos/editors. I've seen it in wuarchive also. 

Here's its readme file:
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Disk No: 2281                                                           
Disk Title: InText Multilingual Word Processing                         
PC-SIG Version: S1                                                      
                                                                        
Program Title: Intext Multilingual Wordprocessing                       
Author Version: 1.2A                                                    
Author Registration: $49.00                                             
Special Requirements: None.                                             
                                                                        
Whether your a linguist, translator, student, or work for a             
international company, you're going to be glad you heard about INTEXT.  
INTEXT is the first shareware wordprocessor created for worldwide use.  
INTEXT lets you create documents in English and any of the following    
languages:  Albanian, Arabic, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish,  
French, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian,         
Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbain, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.    
                                                                        
INTEXT supports all the functions you would expect to find on a full    
function wordprocessor: search and replace, text block commands, text   
formatting commands, etc.  What makes it unique is that all the special 
characters and symbols for the languages are displayed on the screen and
printed out on either Epson FX, LQ, or IBM Proprinter printer.          
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
PC-SIG                                                                  
1030D East Duane Avenue                                                 
Sunnyvale  Ca. 94086                                                    
(408) 730-9291                                                          
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.                                         
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I have tried the Greek mode, and it is fairly decent. My wife tried the
Farsi mode and said it was OK; ditto for the Arabic mode. The program 
runs on the lowest common denominator (CGA/Hercules) and Epson 9 and 24
pin printers or IBM Proprinters. I've printed stuff on my epson fx85.

The word processor commands leave a bit to be desired, as does the speed
(it runs on graphics mode to show the actual chars, fonts are downloaded)
on slower machines. But, for simple things including letters home and 
the such, it's hard to beat. 

I do not know whether the Turkish it generates is standard by anyone's
definition or ISO. I don't think the Greek WAS standard, i.e.
if you want to import the document somewhere else you may be SOL.

Oh, the program is not easy to install, it is a bit tricky, but doable.

Since it does Greek and other texts, I've crossposted this to scg, 
scy, and sce. 

Spiros
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Spiros Triantafyllopoulos                       c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com 
OUZO POWER                                      striantafyll@kosds1.gm.hac.com

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