From: tariqh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Tariq Hamid)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Answer to: "Re: Hindi WordPro" - long
Keywords: ANY WORDPRO
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:03:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London

In <1992Dec18.012852.27310@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> rkumar@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Rahul Kumar) writes:

>	Good Answer Buddy!  I am looking for one too.  If anyone knows, I 
>  would like to know (even for a Mac, or any Unix Box).

             ^^^^^^
		   Don't you mean question. As for an answer here's one.


>	Thanks in advance.


>-- 

>				  Rahul Kumar 
> ****************************************************************************
>  s9416876@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca  |  rkumar@spartan.ac.brocku.ca


List compiler Tariq Hamid.

If you have any relevant information, then please e-mail it to:

		tariqh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk

or send it by post to:


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 Department of Computer Science  	JANET:     tariqh@uk.ac.qmw.dcs
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   Mile End Road                   	  Telephone:  +44 71-975 5245
    LONDON, E1 4NS, UK             	  Fax:        +44 81-980 6533


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                SUPPLIERS OF MULTILINGUAL WORDPROCESSING SYSTEMS

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ArabTeX
-------

Computer:	Mac, PC, Sun, etc, etc.
Type of Prog:	Arabic script typesetter.
Scripts:        Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Kurdish, Maghribi, Ottoman, Pashto, & Urdu

Comments:

	From: ziegler@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Bernhard Ziegler)
	Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, Germany
	Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:05:55 GMT
	Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.arabic,
		 soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.iranian,
		 soc.culture.lebanon,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.turkish
	Subject: ArabTeX Version 2.05
	
	                    ArabTeX Version 2.05
	                    ====================
	Stuttgart,                                             Nov 11 1992
	
	Prof. Klaus Lagally, of the Institut fuer Informatik der Universi-
	taet Stuttgart, releases version 2.05 of ArabTeX, the set of (La-)
	TeX macros for typesetting Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Kurdish, Maghribi,
	Ottoman, Pashto, and Urdu.  There is a new User Manual arabdoc.tex
	that serves for local printing and, being formatted in ArabTeX, at
	the same time as a test of your installation.  A hard-copy version
	is available on request (send request to the author and enclose DM
	10, outside Europe US$ 10, to cover printing and mailing expenses).
	
	Version 2.05 contains a few minor changes: Vowel marks are aligned
	the same distance from the baseline,  Arabic word emphasis is  now
	possible via overlining, splitting of word groups across line boun-
	daries may be prevented by enclosure within curly braces, etc.
	
	To get your local version up to date, retrieve the new style files
	as well as the CHANGES file via anonymous ftp:
	                   ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.211.1)
	directory    :     pub/arabtex
	
	--
	(E)mail to   :
	Prof. Klaus Lagally           lagally@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
	Institut fuer Informatik
	Universitaet Stuttgart
	Breitwiesenstrasse 20-22
	W-7000 Stuttgart 80
	GERMANY

Additional Comments: (copied from iranian.FAQ)


            ARABTEX:
                This is Prof. Klaus Lagally's LaTeX extension for Arabic
                writing. It consists of three packages: the actual Arabtex
                package, the MetaFont package (for those interested), and
                the style files used by Arabtex. Most recent version: 2
                (spring 1992). The latest version has better support for
                Farsi. It worked wonderfully for me, both on my
                Sparcstation and on my Mac (with OzTeX, also a free
                package).
                Price: free
                Availability:
                    anonymous ftp: ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23) (USA)
                    tex.babel.arabic.macros-lagally and
                    tex.babel.arabic.fonts-lagally
                    or
                    ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.211.11) (Europe)
                    pub/arabtex
                    or
                    nuri.inria.fr (128.93.1.26) (Europe)
                    /TeX/tools/arabic
                    or
                    mail to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET
                    and include the lines:
                    SENDME ArabTex.TEX
                    SENDME ArabTex_MF
                    SENDME ArabTex_STYLE
                    in your mail to get the complete package.


                        ------------------------------

Aria
----

Computer:       PC
Printers:       ?
Type of prog:   Wordprocessor (shareware)
Scripts:        Farsi/Urdu(?)

Available from:

        Host tehran.stanford.edu   (36.28.0.189)
        Last updated 00:30 21 Oct 1992

            Location: /pub
              FILE      r--r--r--      101182 Nov 20  1991      aria.zip


                        ------------------------------
Cyrilic TT Font
---------------

	From: ariel@seer.gentoo.com (Cathy Hampton)
	Organization: Brad Lanam, Walnut Creek, CA
	Date: 4 Dec 92 02:03:34 GMT
	Subject: Re: Cyrilic font problem.
	
	In article <lahtinen.723375790@gideon> lahtinen@gideon.fmi.fi
	(Kimmo Lahtinen) writes:
	
	>I got the Cyrilic TT font from nic.funet.fi, but there is a little
	>problem, the layout is quite odd (in Windows Word), I even must
	>use Alt Gr to get some letters.
	
	I think I have the same Cyrillic font as you do, and the keyboard
	layout on my machine is standard Cyrillic, like a Russian typewriter.
	If you use codepaging on your system, could this be screwing up
	Winword?
	
	Ariel

Additional Comments:

	From: petkos@polaris.utu.fi (Petri Koskelainen)
	Organization: Univ. of Turku
	Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 22:58:50 GMT
	Subject: Re: Cyrilic font problem.
	
	huber@felicitas.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Felix Huber) writes:
	
	>>I got the Cyrilic TT font from nic.funet.fi, but there is a little
	>>problem, the layout is quite odd (in Windows Word), I even must
	
	>Could anybody tell me the name of the file that contains this font?
	
	From nic.funet.fi: cyrttf.zip in directory pub/msdos/windows/tt-fonts.
	
	Petri Koskelainen
	Comp. Sciences
	Univ. of Turku
	Turku, Finland






                        ------------------------------

Duang Jan
---------

Computer:	PC
Printers:	Dot matrix and HP compatible laser
Type of prog:	Wordprocessor (shareware)
Scripts:	Armenian, Bengali, Burmese, Cyrillic, Devanagari (for Hindi,
		Marathi, Sanskrit), Greek, Gujerati, Gurumukhi (for Punjabi),
		Khmer, Lao, Roman (including Vietnamese), Sinhalese, Tamil, Thai
Facilities:	Allows English and one other language to be used in the same
		document
Limitations:	Cannot mix several languages in one document.
		Keyboard stickers not available.

MegaChomp Company
3524 Cottman Avenue
Philadelphia
PA 19149-1606 USA
Tel: (010 1) 215 331 2748/8138


                        ------------------------------


Ecological Linguistics
----------------------

Computer:	PC and Mac

For Language Fonts and Word-Processors for: 

Armenian, Bengali , English, Farsi, Hindi (Devanagari), Malyalam , 
Nepali (Extended Devanagari), Pashto , Punjabi , Tamil , Urdu , Vietnamese,
etc, etc.


For catalog(ue), order forms and licence agreements please send $5 and
self-addressed address label to:

        Ecological Linguistics,
        P.O. Box 15156,
        Washington,
        D.C., 20003
        U.S.A

	Tel: (202) 546-5862
	Fax: (202) 543-8393

                        ------------------------------

Ethno Multimedia
----------------

Type:	Fonts, etc.

Comments:

	From: ponnu@sun13.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (K. Ponnambalam)
	Organization: University of Waterloo
	Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:06:03 GMT
	Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian
	Subject: Fonts for Indian/Srilankan Languages
	
	The following company has excellent fonts (more than 15 type)
	for tamil, telugu, kannada, gujarati, sinhalese, hindi, sanskrit,
	and urdu to be used from a Windows environment (TrueType font) and
	has fonts for Mac, NEXT, and Machines that can display Postcript fonts.
	Address and Phone No:  ETHNO MULTIMEDIA, 2055 DUNDAS STREET WEST,
	TORONTO, M6R 1W8, PHONE:(416)588-7193. This for your information only.

                        ------------------------------
FAGR
----

Comments: (from soc.culture.arabic)

	Subject: FAGR ARABIC --ARABIZATION works with all english software SALE

                       FAGR arabization for Sale
                    ==============================

	IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM;
	:                                                 :
	:Works with Wordperfect(5.1),Lotus-123, SYMPHONY, :
	:DBASE,Turbo pascal, Prolog,turbo C++,Borland c++ :
	:and many English software packages.              :
	HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM<

	Fagr package is address to the computer users involving in Arabic and 
	Urdu Languages, and are classified in three main categories:

	FAGR is enhancement to the basic input/output(BIOS) and DOS function 
	calls to allow the IBM PC and compatible to perform in Arabic.

          A:) Provide an intelligent programmable aid for
          developments with High Level Languages, with a notable
          flexibility for adapting to the needs of the used languages.

          continues (Escape Sequences) to control the operation form
          their bilingual developed programs.

          B:) Fagr configuration facilities, can be adapted to
              match each common module, printer and fonts control.

          C:)  Offer an arabization tool which can take care of all the old
          files developed under any of the arabization systems as well
          as convert old files to any required arabization system.

	The minimum system configuration requirements

	     -An IBM personal computer or true compatible
	     -RAM k
	     -DOS Ver. 3.0 or higher
	     -Floppy disk Drive (5.25 or 3.5)
	     -Video adapters EGA, VGA,Mono
	     ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?
	     3    Package contents                    3
	     3         1. Fagr User Manual            3
	     3         2. Fagr Diskette 1/2(5.25")    3
	     3            Fagr Diskette 2/2(5.25")    3
	     3            or                          3
	     3            Fagr Diskette (3.5")        3
	     3                                        3
	     3         For 75.00+shipping             3
	     3                                        3
	     3         Ibrahim beshir                 3
	     3         2001 w.michgan str #305        3
	     3         Milwaukee,Wi53233              3
	     3    or call   414-933-8299              3
	


                        ------------------------------

Gerdooz
-------

Computer:	PC, + C source (hence suitable for a wide range of computers)
Type of prog:	Not a wordprocessor, more a banner write
Scripts:	Farsi - hence supports arabic, and urdu, etc.
Comments: 	(thanks are due to Waseem A Siddiqi <waseems@sco.com> 
		                            for bringing this to my attention).

 (copied from the file sci_announce):
 
 >  Gerdsooz is a Persian script generator, or a stone-age word-processor!
 >  It is a C program that generates Persian script using ascii characters.
 >  
 >  Now you can express yourself in Persian, to your friends, your spouse,
 >  or maybe that sweetheart of yours.  You no longer have to send emails
 >  like:
 >  
 >          khAnom man shomA rA dost darm!
 >  
 >  Instead you have the choice of:
 >  
 >                  |    ..              |   .  |    |   c             . | .
 >           !  o   |>   __,_w q >      _|_,_7  |    |_o_w    . _o    o_ |_7
 >             (  /            /     (_S   :     /           (_)     (
 >  
 >  or even better yet, if you want to highly express yourself:
 >  
 >  
 >  
 >                                                                  1
 >                                                                  1     1
 >                                                               1  1    111
 >                                                              111 1     1
 >                                                               1  1
 >                                                                  1
 >                                                                  1     1
 >                                                                1 1    1111
 >                                                               11 1   11 11111
 >                                                       1       11 1        111
 >                                                     1111       1 1      1111
 >                                                    111111111111  111111111
 >                                                   1  111111111    111111
 >                                                   1  111
 >                                                   1   1
 >                                                   1
 >                                                   1
 >                                                   1
 >                                                   1
 >                                                   1
 >                                                   1
 >                                                   1
 >                                                   1
 >  
 >  
 >                             1
 >                             1                  1
 >                             1                 111
 >                             1                  1
 >                             1                 1 1
 >                             1                11111
 >                             1                 1 1            1
 >                             1                               111           11
 >                             1       1               1        1           1111
 >                             1      111     1    1  11           1       11  1
 >                             1     11 11   11   11  11           11     1111 1
 >                             11111111  11111111111111      1     11111111 1111
 >                              11111111111111 1111 111     1       111111   11
 >                                     11                   1       1
 >                                                          1       1
 >                                                          1      1
 >                                                          11    11
 >                                                           111111
 >                                                            1111

Available from:

	Host tehran.stanford.edu   (36.28.0.189)
	Last updated 03:35 22 Nov 1992

	    Location: /FAQ/Word_Processors/Gerdsooz
	      FILE      rw-r--r--     13511  Nov 19 14:09   GERDSOOZ.EXE
	      FILE      rw-r--r--     18647  Nov 19 14:09   GERDSOOZ.EXE.uu
	      FILE      rw-r--r--     6916   Nov 19 14:09   Gerdsooz.c
	      FILE      rw-r--r--     6631   Nov 19 14:09   README
	      FILE      rw-r--r--     2289   Nov 19 14:09   mikhi-10
	      FILE      rw-r--r--     13049  Nov 19 14:09   sci_announce

GIST
----

Comments:	Inexpensive

Additional Comments:	(from soc.culture.indian)

	From: datta@unislc.uucp (Abhijit Datta)
	Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
	Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 20:56:35 GMT
	Subject: Re: Hindi word processor for PC
	
	/begin{mysubject}
	
	There is a hardware-cum-software product that might well serve your 
	purpose more than what you are looking for.
	
	GIST (Gist based Intelligent Script Technology) as the product is called
	helps in transliterating from & to English Roman, Devnagiri (Hindi), 
	Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Oriya, Assameese, Perso-Arabic, Russian, Thai 
	etc., there might be still further more.
	
	This is the product from C-DAC ( Centre for Development of Advannced
	Computing, Pune ), and it conforms to the language, font standards.
	It also has printer drivers for most of the printers ( dot, line, LP ).
	The choice of the language comes on the EPROM & has a state-of-the art
	ASIC (brain) chip.
	
	If you are interested you can ask for more information on the following
	address :
	
	        GIST Group Co-ordinator/Executive Director
	        Centre for Development of Advanced Computing ( C-DAC )
	        Poona University Campus, Ganesh Khind Road,
	        Pune 411 007, India.
	        Tel.: 212-332461/79 ;   Fax : 337551
	        email : bhatkar@parcom.ernet.in (Executive Director)
	
	Just for information, this is not the main product of C-DAC.
	They are in the world of Parallel Computing ( Supercomputing ?? ).
	
	Cost would approx. be Rs. 6000/- (in that range), I am not sure if it
	depends on the choices of scripts. It also has an word processor ( some
	'ms', like wordstar ), also your language datas goes well with dBase,
	Lotus etc. As far as in India it concerns, it is a standard.
	
	Abhijit Datta
	ex C-DAC
	datta@unislc.slc.unisys.com or, uunet!unislc!datta ( 801-594-7623 )
	
	///if you are contacting & have any problems,you can relay things to me.
	
	/end{mysubject}

                        ------------------------------

indianfonts
-----------

Computer:	Mac
Printers:	Dot matrix, laser
Type:		Font package, plus module for Microsoft Word.
Scripts:	Devanagri, Tamil
Comments:	
	[Ravinder Bhumbla: rbhumbla@ucsd.edu]
	1. README - You must read this before starting
	2. Author's Note - Read this next
	3. Indian fonts - Screen fonts for Tamil and Devanagri
	4. Tamla - Laser Printer fonts for Tamil
	5. Kanchi mapping - An M.S. Word file showing the keyboard mapping for
	   the Kanchi (Devangari) font.  The font needs to be installed in the
	   system before you can real see this file properly.

	There is no printer font for Devanagri so it will print like it
	appears on the screen).  You can install the screen fonts using
	Font/DA mover which should be on your Mac (ask your system
	administrator or your mother for help if you can't figure out how to
	do that!).

Additional Comments: (copied from FAQ soc.culture.indian)

	Macintosh:
	
	        Macintosh fonts for Devanagari and Tamil are available by
	anonymous ftp from mac.archive.umich.edu.  They are in the file
	indianfonts.sit.hqx in the directory
	mac/system.extensions/font/type.three.fonts  The fonts are in a
	binhex/stuffit format.  If you don't know how to decode these formats,
	see the postings on comp.sys.mac.announce or comp.sys.mac.misc.  These
	fonts are absolutely free.



Avialable from:
	
	Host plaza.aarnet.edu.au   (139.130.4.6)
	
	  Location: /micros/mac/umich/system.extensions/font/type3
	      FILE      r--r--r--     68953  Sep 13  1991   indianfonts.sit.hqx
	
	Host wuarchive.wustl.edu   (128.252.135.4)
	
	  Location: /mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/mac/system.extensions/font/type3
	      FILE      r--r--r--     68953  Sep 12  1991   indianfonts.sit.hqx
	
	Host garbo.uwasa.fi   (128.214.87.1)
	
	  Location: /mac/mirror.umich/system.extensions/font/type3
	      FILE      r--r--r--     68953  Sep  5 17:04   indianfonts.sit.hqx
	
	Host src.doc.ic.ac.uk   (146.169.2.1)
	
	  Location: /computing/systems/mac/umich/system.extensions/font/type3
	      FILE      r--r--r--     62679 Sep 13 1991   indianfonts.sit.hqx.Z
	
	

                        ------------------------------

Intext
------

Computer:       PC
Printers:       Dot matrix (24 pin)
Type of prog:   Wordprocessor (shareware)
Scripts:        Arabic, Cyrllic, Farsi, Roman, Turkish, Urdu
Limitations:    Dated and awful, but people use it.

Available from:
	
	Host isfs.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp   (130.54.20.1)
	
	    Location: /mirrors/simtel20.msdos/editor
	      FILE      rw-rw-r--    266030  Aug 22  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host gdr.bath.ac.uk   (138.38.32.1)
	
	    Location: /simtel-cdrom/msdos/editor
	      FILE      r-xr-xr-x    266030  Aug 22  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host gatekeeper.dec.com   (16.1.0.2)
	
	    Location: /.2/micro/msdos/simtel20/editor
	      FILE      r--r--r--    266030  Aug 20  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host ftp.uu.net   (137.39.1.9)
	
	    Location: /systems/ibmpc/msdos/simtel20/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Aug 21  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host athene.uni-paderborn.de   (131.234.2.32)
	
	    Location: /pcsoft/msdos/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Nov  3  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host pinus.slu.se   (130.238.98.11)
	
	    Location: /msdos.nfs.sunet.se/mirrors/msdos/editor
	      FILE      r-----r--    266030  Aug 23  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host nic.funet.fi   (128.214.6.100)
	
	    Location: /pub/msdos/editors/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Feb  6  1992   intext12.zip
	    Location: /pub/msdos/SIMTEL20-mirror/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Feb  6  1992   intext12.zip
	
	Host nic.switch.ch   (130.59.1.40)
	
	    Location: /mirror/msdos/editor
	      FILE      rw-rw-r--    266030  Aug 22  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host plaza.aarnet.edu.au   (139.130.4.6)
	
	    Location: /micros/pc/simtel-20/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Aug 22  1991   intext12.zip
	    Location: /micros/pc/oak/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Aug 22  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host rigel.acs.oakland.edu   (141.210.10.117)
	
	    Location: /pub/msdos/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Aug 22  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de   (129.206.100.126)
	
	    Location: /pub/msdos/simtel/editor
	      FILE      r--r--r--    266112  Aug 22  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host swdsrv.edvz.univie.ac.at   (131.130.1.4)
	
	    Location: /pc/dos/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Aug 22  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de   (137.226.112.31)
	
	    Location: /pub/rz.archiv/simtel/msdos/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Sep  4  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host wuarchive.wustl.edu   (128.252.135.4)
	
	    Location: /mirrors/msdos/editor
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    266030  Aug 22  1991   intext12.zip
	
	Host askhp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de   (192.67.194.33)
	
	    Location: /pub/msdos/demos
	      FILE      rw-r--r--    416610  Feb  3  1992   intext.arc
	      FILE      rw-r--r--      6007  Feb  3  1992   intext.txt


Additional Comments:
	(copied from iranian.FAQ)


        PC's:
            There must be quite a few of them around, but being a
            DOS-illiterate, I have no idea about them, apart from a
            shareware one (posted by Ala), and an announcement I saved
            from comp.text and soc.culture.arabic.

            INTEXT:
                Available through ftp: vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
                name: ipfs
                passwd: mark
                command: quote acct iran
                command: binary
                command: get INTEXT.ZIP
                and you have the unzippable (PKUNZIP) version.


                        ------------------------------
itrans
------

Comments: (copied from FAQ soc.culture.indian)

   ~Subject: 15)   Printing Indian Language Texts using TeX and/or PostScript
   
   TeX/PS:
           There are two transliteration packages for TeX that are
   available by anonymous ftp:
   
   1.      The first package, itrans, has been developed by Avinash
   Chopde avinash@contex.com, currently supports Devanagari and Tamil.
   It uses the Washington Tamil Metafont font (developed at U of
   Washington) and a Postscript Devanagari font (developed by Avinash).
   It also supports Frans Velthuis's Devnag font (see item 2 below).
   
           "itrans" is a package for printing transliterated
   indian language documents. The input may be in TeX format, or may
   be a dumb textual document (no word processing features). Version 2.1
   was released in October 1991.
   
           The package includes all C-sources, the PostScript Devanagari font,
   and the Metafont Tamil font. It is available as a compressed tar
   file, at these FTP sites:
   cs.duke.edu (128.109.140.1), in dist/sources/itrans21.tar.Z
   ftp.stolaf.edu, in pub/sci/itrans21.tar.Z
   This package DOES NOT include Frans's Devnag font, you have to get it
   separately.


Additional Comments:

   From: avinash@felix.contex.com (Avinash Chopde)
   Date: 7 Dec 92 22:29:43 GMT
   Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,soc.culture.indian
   Subject: ITRANS 3.2 is now available (indian language printing).
   
   I have uploaded version 3.2 of ITRANS (previous version was 2.1)
   to ftp.uu.net, in tmp/itrans21.tar.Z and tmp/itransps.tar.Z
   
   This package provides a pre-processor to transliterate english text
   into indian language scripts: currently devanagari, tamil, telugu, and
   bengali are supported. It works with TeX (does not work with any WYSIWYG
   package --- MS-Windows or Macintosh).
   
   If anyone from the following sites is listening, please let me know
   if you can store the latest version at your site (ftp.uu.net is a
   temporary site, files are deleted in four days):
           cs.duke.edu
           ftp.stolaf.edu
   (These two sites are the primary sites storing the previous ITRANS
   version.)
   
   After two weeks, will upload the IBM-PC version (ZIP package) to SIMTEL20.
   --
   ---------------------------
   Avinash Chopde         office : 617 246 1776x5582
   avinash@contex.com     (...!uunet!contex!avinash)


                        ------------------------------

JWP (Japanese Wordprocessor)
---

Computers:	PC
Scripts:	Japanese
Comments: (from pmk@access.digex.com (Pete Kilcullen))

	The JWP 1.01 work with MSDOS and can mix English and Japanese in the 
	same document. It is aWindows program. The author has it available for 
	download from "kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov". Works great!

Available from:
	(see "Comments:" section)


                        ------------------------------

Kalam
-----

Computers:	PC and Mac
Type of prog:	WP and DTP
Scripts:	Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Gujerati, Malayalam, Tamil

Available from:

        Polydiam Industries Ltd,
        1c Aubert Park,
        London N5 1TL
	U.K.

	Tel: 071-354 1345
	Fax: 071 -359 9684

                        ------------------------------


Al Kaatib
--------
(copied from iranian.FAQ)

       MAC:

            AlKaatib:
                Is a right-to-left editor and comes with an Arabic
                font, in any case bitmaps. Is supposed to run under
                MultiFinder. You type your text in AlKaatib, and then
                copy and paste it into your favorite application
                (MacWrite, MS-Word, Excel etc.)
                Personally, I've used version 1.0 from an illegal copy
                back in 1986 for a while, but did not really like the
                concept, so I never bought it.
                Price: $199.00 retail; Alkaatib
                       $199.00 retail; Alkaatib Laser Font (PostScript)
                       $299.00 retail; Tawfiq Laser Font Family (postScript)
                       $199.00 retail; Ferdosi Laser Font (Postscript)
                Availability: Eastern Language Systems
                              39 West 330 North
                              Provo, UT 84601
                              1-801-377-4558
                According to recent news, the Mac line is no longer
                supported, but just the MS-DOS line.


                        ------------------------------

LinguaDos and LinguaStar
------------------------

Computer:       PC
Printers:       Dot matrix and laser
Types of prog:  LinguaDos is a wordprocessor add-on for Wordstar, and
                Wordperfect, allowing them to be used for multilingual purposes.
Scripts:        Arabic/Faris/Urdu, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek,
                Gujerati, Gurumukhi, Roman

Available from:

        LinguaTech Bilingual Technology
        19 College Parade
        Salubury Road
        London NW6 6RN
	U.K.

        Tel: 071 -625 5820
        Fax: 071 -625 5842


                        ------------------------------

Linguist's Software *
-------------------

Computer:       Mac, PC, and others
Printers:       Laser
Types of prog:  LinguaDos is a wordprocessor add-on for Wordstar, and
                Wordperfect, allowing them to be used for multilingual purposes.
		( Also supply various other fonts and wordporcessors. *)
Comments:	Not ideal for Urdu
Scripts:        Arabic/Farsi, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Gujerati, Gurumukhi,
		Roman, Tamil


Available from:

1)
	Linguist's Software
	P.O. Box 580
	Edmonds, WA
	USA 98020-0580

	Tel: 0101 - 206 775 1130
	Fax: 0101 - 206 771 5911


2)	Apple Centres throughout U.K. and U.S.
	
                        ------------------------------
Misbah
------

Computer:       PC
Printers:       laser and dotmatrix
Type of prog:	word processor
Comments:	Ali, d89-ash@nada.kth.se, says: 
		"Rating...hmmm, it's ok....it uses arabic fonts 
		(like yae with two dots underneah)....not all that interactive."
Scripts:        Roman, Urdu


Available from:

		




                        ------------------------------

Multi-Lingual-Scribe
--------------------

Computer:	PC
Printers:	laser and dot-matrix
Type of prog:	word processor
Scripts:	Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Bengali, Cpoptic, Cyrillic, Devanagri
		(for Hindi,Marathi,Sanskrit), Georgian, Gurmukhi (for Panjabi),
		Hebrew, Inuktitut, IPA, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Persian, 
		Phoenician, Roman (including Vietnamese), Sinhalese, Syriac, 
		Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, Urgaritic
Comments:	Can accomodate the widest range of languages of any PC program.
		Files can be imported into Pagemaker and Ventura.
		Huge range of languages. Urdu is not available in Nastaliq style

Available from:

1)	
	Gamma Productions
	710 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 609
	Santa Monica
	California 90401 USA

	Tel: 0101 213 394 8622
	Tlx: 0101 510 600 8273

2)	UK Agents:

	2020 Technology
	5 Glasshouse Walk
	London SE11 5ES

	Tel: 071 - 793 0005/6

3)	India Agents:

	Mafatal Consultancy,
	Rajam House,
	Prajab Devi,
	Bombay 400 025

4)	Bangledesh Agents:

	Classic Business,
	66 Dilkusha Commercial Area,
	Dacca 1000

	Tel: 23 99 23

5)	Pakistan Agents:

	Danishkada,
	P.O. Box 109,
	Lahore 54000

	Tel: 324810




                        ------------------------------

Nisus
-----

Computer:	Mac

(copied from iranian.FAQ)

            Nisus:
                Nothing as of yet, but they have announced that they
                will have an Arabic version in october, based on Nisus
                3.06.
                Price will probably around $350, but maybe an academic
                rebate ala normal Nisus.
                Availability: Contact Paragon (+44) 81 642 2255)
                              or fax: (+44) 81 642 4621 (in Europe)
                              I don't know any numbers in the US)
                I have heard it is out by now.


                        ------------------------------

Palladam
--------

From: tg@chmsr.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj)
Organization: Center for Human-Machine Systems Research - Georgia Tech
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:04:47 GMT
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Tamil font "Palladam" on isye.gatech.edu

The Tamil font for the Apple Macintosh that I developed, called
Palladam, is in the ftp archive on isye.gatech.edu. It used to be
on chmsr.gatech.edu. For several administrative reasons, we moved it
isye.gatech.edu (actually not really moved, since they have the same
file system). You can retrieve the files via anonymous ftp from

        isye.gatech.edu (130.207.92.15)

I know that several of you have had problems trying to ftp from chmsr,
which is closed for ftp access. Sorry for the problems.

--
T. Govindaraj   +1 404 894 3873         tg@chmsr.gatech.edu,NeXTmail welcome.
Member, League for Programming Freedom  (write lpf@uunet.uu.net)
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
765 Ferst Drive, ISyE-0205, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205.



                        ------------------------------

Rice Inverse Transliterator (R.I.T.)
------------------------------------
	
	       Release of Rice Inverse Transliterator Software
	
	[This post is for Telugu nettors and possibly for developers of
	software for other Indian languages.]
	
	This is to announce the release of the Rice Inverse Transliterator
	(rit), a free software package for processing text consisting of
	Telugu and English.  This software is now in the public domain and is
	accessible by anonymous ftp.
	
	rit is a typesetting software with the following capabilities:
	
	1. distinguishing English words from Telugu words.
	2. translating some English words into Telugu.
	3. transliterating some English words into Telugu.
	4. correcting spellings in transliterated Telugu.
	
	You will find this software useful if
	
	1. you post or read messages containing Telugu on s.c.i.t
	2. you cannot write Telugu but can speak it
	3. you write letters in Telugu (with English mixed)
	4. you write stories/poems/.. in Telugu
	5. you want a small on-line English-to-Telugu dictionary.
	
	Briefly, this software takes text like
	
	maa school ee city lo kallaa peddadi
	
	and prints it in Telugu and English appropriately. It can also
	translate "school" into "baDi" and "city" into "nagaram".
	
	To use this software, you
	
	1. need not know how to use LaTeX
	2. need not have installed TeluguTeX
	3. need not be a Unix expert.
	
	We think this software uses ideas that can be used for developing
	similar packages for other Indian languages. We invite developers of
	software for other languages to examine this package.
	
	To get the software, get by anonymous ftp "rit10tar.Z" in
	"dua1:[dviln03.andhra]" directory from 134.129.123.1 (in binary mode).
	For more details, see soc.culture.indian.telugu.
	
	This software is free and is in the public domain, BUT COMES WITH NO
	WARRANTY. This software is currently configured as a front end to
	TeluguTeX, but you are *not* required to have installed TeluguTeX. You
	are free to distribute rit software without any charge.
	
	We hope this software will be useful to you.
	
	Rama Rao Kanneganti
	Ananda Kishore
	

                        ------------------------------

Patrick Jost's Shareware Persian/Arabic WP
------------------------------------------

(copied from iranian.FAQ)


            Patrick Jost's shareware Persian/Arabic text processing
            capabilities.
                I have no idea about this, but he announced his
                package on soc.culture.arabic last year.
                Price: shareware, $15 (US-price)
                Availability: Patrick Jost
                              12228 Venice Boulevard #495
                              Los Angeles, CA 9006
                              jost@coyote.trw.com


                        ------------------------------

PIS/AIS
-------

(copied from iranian.FAQ)

            PIS, AIS:
                The interface systems by Apple for the Arabic script,
                AIS and PIS, are as far as I know only available
                through APDA (Apple Programmers Developers
                Association). You can find them on their CD-ROM's
                (latest version: 6.0.7).  Companies like WinSoft can
                give you the interface system for an additional price,
                when you buy their products.

                        ------------------------------

Punjabi Fonts
-------------

Computer:	PC (Windows), Mac, Next
Type:	Punjabi gurumukhi fonts

Comments: (copied from FAQ soc.culture.indian)

	Punjabi Fonts:
	You have to buy these fonts.
	Adobe Type 1 Punjabi fonts for use with IBM-PC (Windows 3.0)
	and Macintosh computers. They are also made available, as per special
	requests, for the NeXT machines.
	
	Address is:
	Jasbir Singh
	P.O. Box 32010
	Cleveland,  OH 44132
	(216)731-6561

Addition Comments:	For U.K. residents - (from jasbir@alpha.ces.cwru.edu)

	They are priced at 100 pounds. We do have a UK distributor, who can be
	contacted at
	        MFVRPVSK@fs1.geography.manchester.ac.uk
	
	His name is Virinder Singh.
	I shall send your query to him too, and ask him to contact you.
	
	Thanks for your interest.
	
	Jasbir Singh
	Maboli Systems, Inc.
	

                        ------------------------------


Surkhab Publishing *****
------------------

Computer:	PC
Printers:	Laser
Type of prog:	Word processor with some DTP facilities
Scripts:	Arabic, Persian, Roman, Urdu
Facilities:	True nastaliq style for Urdu
Comments:	Recommended for Urdu typesetting.

Available from:

	Nufax Ltd.,
	495 Bath Road
	Brislington,
	Bristol BS4 3JU
	U.K.

	Tel: 0272 72404


                        ------------------------------
TeX
---



(copied from iranian.FAQ)

        Various systems:

            PARTEX:
                A package also known as ATEX, as far as I know by Terry
                Regier (regier@cogsci.berkeley.edu). The drawback is that
                it needs a filter before you call LaTeX, but the filter is
                relatively simple and easily adjustable. Also it uses
                Yannis Haralambous (France) fonts, and I don't know
                whether these are still available in the public domain. He
                used to mail them to interested people, and I have a copy,
                but I don't know whether I have any rights to distribute
                them (see below).
                It worked fine for me however.
                Price: free
                Availability:
                    anonymous ftp: ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23)
                    tex.babel.arabic.atex
                    or
                    icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu
                    pub/ai/atex/atex.tar.Z

            SCHOLARTEX:
                A package by Yannis Haralambous ( yannis@FRCITL81.BITNET)
                for Mac and MS-DOS, supposedly handling almost any language.
                Price: approx. $200 (institutes pay a higher price)
                Availability:
                    Yannis Haralambous
                    101/11, rue Breughel
                    59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
                    France
                    Tel. (33) 20.05.28.80
                    Fax  (33) 20.91.05.64
                    Bitnet: yannis@frcitl81

SEE ALSO:	ArabTeX, itrans, Rice Inverse Transliterator (R.I.T.),
		Velthuis Devanagari Fonts,


                        ------------------------------

Urdu Program 1
--------------

Computer:	Mac
Printers:	Postscript Laser
Type of prog:	Fonts for DTP
Comments:	Nastaliq quality for Urdu.

Available from:

	Linguatech
	59 Wickham House
	10 Cleveland Way
	London E1 4TR


                        ------------------------------

Velthuis Devanagari Fonts
Type:	Hindi TeX preprocessor and fonts.
Comments:

	From local.tex-users Thu Nov 19 22:59:45 1992
	Date:    Fri, 17 Jul 92 11:34:00 +0000
	From:    Stephen Miller <STEPHEN@uk.ac.oxford.vax>
	Subject: Velthuis Devanagari fonts for OzTeX
	
	The Velthuis Devanagari fonts are now available for use with OzTeX: the
	pre-processor was compiled by Peter Robinson from the "Computers and
	Manuscripts" project and many thanks are due to him for this task. The
	manual accompanying the fonts/pre-processor is available as an OzTeX DVI
	file.
	
	The pre-processor has been used on the test file with success:it has not
	however been subjected to a more lengthy test--feedback welcome. Send it
	to me and not to the list please.
	
	Stephen Miller
	stephen@uk.ac.oxford.vax
	
	            { I've copied this into the UK TeX Archive in
	       [tex-archive.mac.oztex.contrib]devanagari09.hqx  --Ed.}

Additional Comments: (copied from FAQ soc.culture.indian)

	2.      The second package Devanagari for Tex has been developed by
	Frans J. Velthuis (velthuis@rc.rug.nl).  It has Computer Modern fonts
	for Devanagri.  It is available by anonymous ftp from
	june.cs.washington.edu in the directory ~/tex in devnag.tar.Z




Wintext
-------

Computer:	Mac
Printers:	Postscript Laser
Types of Prog:	WinText -word processor; WinFile - multilingual database;
		WinView - desktop publishing; WinKit - fonts and keyboard
		stickers for non-roman scripts.
Scripts:	Arabic/Farsi, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hewbew, Japanese, Roman.
Comments:	Intended primarily for use with Arabic, WinKit includes the 
		additional characters required for Urdu text. No Nataliq script.



(copied from iranian.FAQ)
            WinText:
                Is a mixed left-to-right, right-to-left wordprocessor.
                It uses AIS (Arabic Interface System) or PIS (Persian
                InterfaceSystem), the Apple systems for use with the
                Arabic script (see below).
                I have been playing around with a demo-version and was
                quite impressed. However, I have heard rumours that it
                does not like large documents, but never seen real
                proof of this.
                The price was too steep for my intentional use (just
                personal correspondence).
                Price: 2200 FF (french francs), approx. $350-$400.
                       (Last year's price)

Available From:
	1)	WinSoft
                34 Boulevard de l'Esplanade
                38000 Grenoble
                FRANCE

                Tel: 010 33 76 87 56 01
                Fax: 010 33 76 87 83 10

	2)	UK Agents:

		Gomark Ltd
		10 Hurlington Business Park
		Sulivan Road
		London SW6 3DU

		Tel: 071 - 731 7930

                        ------------------------------


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

				ADDITIONAL ITEMS
				----------------

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ASL Edit +
----------

Computer:	Mac
Type of Prog:	Scheme Computer Programming Language System 
			+ basic japanese editor
Scripts:	Japanese

Comments:	A rudimentary editor.

Available from:

	Host oskgate0.mei.co.jp   (132.182.49.2)
	Last updated 04:38 18 Nov 1992

	    Location: /tmp_mnt/public/free/mac/others
	      FILE      rw-r--r--  176213  Nov 18  1991   ASLEdit-1.0a30.hqx

	Host garbo.uwasa.fi   (128.214.87.1)
	Last updated 18:51 20 Oct 1992
	
	    Location: /mac/editor
	      FILE      rw-rw-r--  145797  Sep  5 17:22   asleditplus10a12.sit
	
	Host rigel.acs.oakland.edu   (141.210.10.117)
	Last updated 04:08 11 Dec 1992
	
	    Location: /pub/macintosh/da
	      FILE      rw-r--r--   85248  Jan  4  1990   asledit.sit
	
	Host wuarchive.wustl.edu   (128.252.135.4)
	Last updated 03:16 25 Nov 1992
	
	    Location: /mirrors4/macintosh/da
	      FILE      rw-rw-r--   85248  Jan  3  1990   asledit.sit
	
	Host rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de   (129.69.1.12)
	Last updated 03:47 20 Nov 1992
	
	    Location: /.serv2/soft/mac/editors
	      FILE      rw-r--r--  199116  Feb  1  1991   asledit-plus-10a12.hqx
	    Location: /.serv2/soft/mac/app
	      FILE      rw-r--r--   24576  Apr 11  1991   asledit-plus-10a12.hqx


        ftp.uwtc.washington.edu in:

                /pub/Japanese/Macintosh


                        ------------------------------
jchar, jcode & jconv
--------------------

Computer:	Mac
Type of Prog:	Conversion utilities for japanese character codes

Comments:

	/mac/util/font/jchar1.3.cpt.hqx
	  60     12/6/92    BinHex4.0,Compact1.33
	
	   A tool for generating various Japanese character sets.  Supports
	   Shift-JIS, EUC, New-JIS, Old-JIS, and NEC-JIS codes for output.
	   Includes C source.  Very minimal interface.
	
	/mac/util/font/jcode1.6.cpt.hqx
	  39     12/6/92    BinHex4.0,Compact1.33
	
	   A tool for generating the Japanese character codes.     Supports
	   Shift-JIS, EUC, New-JIS, Old-JIS, and NEC-JIS.  Includes C source.
	   Very minimal interface.
	
	/mac/util/font/jconv2.3.cpt.hqx
	  39     12/6/92    BinHex4.0,Compact1.33
	
	   A tool for converting the Japanese code of Japanese textfiles
	   between different electronic formats for Japanese.
	   Supports Shift-JIS, EUC, New-JIS, Old-JIS, and NEC-JIS for both
	   input and output.  Includes C source.  Very minimal interface.

Available from:

        "wuarchive.wustl.edu" in the directory "mirrors/archive.umich.edu/mac",
        "archie.au" in the directory "micros/mac/umich",
   and  "src.doc.ic.ac.uk" in the directory "packages/mac/umich".

	Don't foget to append the paths given in the "Comments:" section.



			-------------------------

gaku10.exe

	from  ftp.uwtc.washington.edu  in: /pub/Japanese/IBM

	self-extracting LHA file for GAKUSEI 1.0.1, a shareware Japanese
	language tutorial which includes a dictionary, glossary, automatic
	verb conjugation, and introductions to Hiragana and Katakana using
	a standard keyboard layout.  Requires DOS 3.3 or better, EGA or VGA
	, Epson LQ or HP LJII printer.  This package includes the first six
                lessons.  Registered users get nine additional lessons.

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--

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 Department of Computer Science  	JANET:     tariqh@uk.ac.qmw.dcs
  Queen Mary & Westfield College  
   Mile End Road                   	  Telephone:  +44 71-975 5245
    LONDON, E1 4NS, UK             	  Fax:        +44 81-980 6533
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