Slavic Fonts and WordPerfect (was Czech Font)

[twoofus at execpc.com]

Robert Orr said:
>WordPerfect character sets do a very nice job; Character
>set 1 includes all the Czech accents

Actually, you can buy a language module from WordPerfect that will allow you
to print any of the Slavic Languages (and Georgian too, I think) using just
about any printer.  I have a Panasonic KX-P1124i dot matrix and it comes out
fine.  I had to buy a memory chip for it, but that's all.  Of course, it
prints even better on a laser printer, but dot matrix works fine.

I don't know if they would still be able to sell the Module for WP 5.1 because
they've moved on now to 6.0 and 6.1.  I have the Module for 5.1 and 6.0 and
6.1 is due out soon.  If you're thinking of upgrading from 5.1, definitely
*wait* until 6.1 is out.  The 6.0 version has some bugs in it that are kind of
annoying, but I have been assured that they are fixed in the 6.1 version, not
that it does me any good.  Not only do you get 3 different Russian keyboards
and 2 Ukrainian ones (Soviet style, phonetic/student style and one other
Russian one), but even better is that the Language Modules come complete with
hyphenation rules and a WP Spell Checker dictionary.  The best part is that
the Russian spell checker is integrated with the regular spell checker so that
you only have to check the document once and it will do *both* the English
*and* the Russian at the same time.

I don't know how well the Russian dictionary would work for other Slavic
Languages and I do know that if you use Czech or Serbo or whatever on a
regular basis you need to edit the keyboard to add the special characters, but
since you can start from a Russian keyboard, it's not that hard.  I've done it
before.

If anyone wants additional information, send me an email and I'll get it back
to you as soon as I can.


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Rachel Kilbourn                 Slavic Department
twoofus at execpc.com              University of Wisconsin - Madison

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