Computer question

[James Driscoll]

Melissa,

I'm sure many people will express strong opinions about which font solution
is the best.  Let me point you towards one that is already buried within
the Windows operating system.  (I am assuming, by the way, that you mean
Microsoft Word for Windows as opposed to the Macintosh.)

>>From the "Start" button, open up the Add/Remove Programs feature in WIndows
95/98.  "Start--Settings--Control Panel --Add/Remove Programs."  Click on
the "Windows Setup" tab.  From the list of optional components, choose
"Multilanguage Support."  By clicking on the Cyrillic language pack, you
will automatically load cyrillic fonts into your operating system.

The next step is to add a cyrillic keyboard to your system so that you can
get at those fonts.  The process is similar to the one above.
"Start--Setttings--Control Panel--Keyboard."  When the Keyboard feature
comes up, click on the middle tab called "Language".  By clicking on the
"Add" button, you will be offered a choice of language keyboards to add to
your system, including Russian.

Reboot the computer to make sure the settings take.  After this, when you
are in Microsoft Word, you will be able to toggle between English and
Russian Keyboards (by pressing the "Control" and "Shift" key
simultaneously, or some other combination of your choosing.)

Good luck!

Jim Driscoll


10:47 AM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Seelangers,
>
>I have what I think is a very simple computer question.  Sarah Lawrence is
>in the process of changing their computer network which will involve
>dropping Word Perfect. I am wondering what the best way is to get a
>Cyrillic font with Microsoft Word both for my use and for the use of my
>students.  With WordPerfect I used a public domain true-type font with my
>computer at home which I just loaded into Windows; on the network at school
>we had language modules to go with Word Perfect which were a bit unwieldy
>but had the advantage of offering fonts for all the foreign languages here.
> Can I just load my font with MSWord the same way I did for WordPerfect?
>Can I ask the computer people to load my font with the network?  Should I
>have the department buy something for use on the network, either
>specifically for Russian or for other languages?  Any thoughts are welcome,
>and I'm sorry for asking such a primitive question --unfortunately the
>computer support I can get on campus is nearly non-existent.  I can be
>reached at mfrazier at mail.slc.edu.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Melissa Frazier
>