LINGUIST List 3.325

Tue 07 Apr 1992

FYI: Fonts, New List

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1. Henry Kucera, Re: 3.315 Queries: NP, Word Lists, Kurdish, Software
2. Eric Schiller, Re: 3.319 FYI: Icelandic, Fonts, Spanish
3. Jim McIntosh, NEW LIST: APPC-L - APPC Discussion List

Message 1: Re: 3.315 Queries: NP, Word Lists, Kurdish, Software

 Re Spanish word-processing software: Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0 has not
only Spanish fonts but a Spanish spelling checker and thesaurus. However, if
you buy the product in the US, you get English only, and the Spanish will cost
 you a bit extra. If you buy the product in Spain or S. America, the standard
system will include the Spanish software. It is advisable to check with your
vendor what you are getting. The foreign language software in the US is about
$60.- or so per language, if memory serves me right, but there are discounts
available at university stores in many places (I can't give you precise
cost figures, unfortunately, since they seem to vary). I do know, however,
that the Spanish spelling checker is very extensive. I have no experience with
the thesaurus.
 Regards, Henry Kucera

Message 2: Re: 3.319 FYI: Icelandic, Fonts, Spanish

Re: Adobe Fonts (more)
Alas, they do not seem to work with Quark Express. I had hoped to use
Quark as the font requires a program that supports kerning, but Renner
chose a strange approach to kerning, leaving the diacritic a full
character to the right and pulloing it all the way over. But Quark
supports kerning only up to .5 character or so. Why the font wasn't
designed with zero-width diacritics baffles me, but I have written
(semi-flamed) Adobe and hope to have more news soon. I have not
tried it with Word Perfect 2.1 because my upgrade has not arrived
yet. As for Nisus, I expect we need to wait for version 4.0 but
I am working with some of their people on some suggestions to make
the program even more useful to linguists. As for Microsoft, who knows?
On the positive side, I have approached Adobe on pricing and they assure
me that there are good Academic discounts, but that a package price
for the Stone family including IPA will be taken under consideration.
Those who wish to nag should note that Adobe has an easy to remember
Internet address: adobe.com.

Eric Schiller

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