LINGUIST List 7.745

Fri May 24 1996

FYI: Editor, Fellowship

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <dseelyemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. "Jean Ve'ronis", Soft: MtScript (Multilingual editor)
2. Lizhong Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chinese Computing

*** ANNOUNCING FREE SOFTWARE ALPHA RELEASE ***

 MtScript - The Multext multi-lingual text editor


We are pleased to announce an alpha release of the multi-lingual text editor
developed within the MULTEXT project, which provides facilities for creating an
d
saving files in a wide variety of languages and corresponding character sets.
MtScript provides the following main capabilities:

o the use of several different writing systems (Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic,
 Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) in the same document;

o interspersing left-to-right and right-to-left writing systems
 (e.g. : Arabic - French - Hebrew - English);

o explicit association of portions of a text with a particular language;

o the definition of user-modifiable writing rules for each language;

o use of a standard keyboard for any language and character set;

o co-mingling of one-byte and multiple-byte character sets (ISO 8859
 series, GB_2312_80, BIG_5, JISX0208, KSC5601).

MtScript is freely available for non-commercial, non-military purposes (see our
User agreement). A compiled alpha version (v1.1) for Sun Sparc stations under
Solaris 1.x or 2.x can be downloaded from the URL

 <http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/multext/MtScript/>;

Note that MtScript is an alpha version with bugs and limitations It is
being distributed "as is" in order to solicit feedback. We invite the
user community to send comments and advice, provide additonal fonts, help
write language rules, etc.

Jean Ve'ronis
Multext project Coordinator_______________veronisuniv-aix.fr

For people interested in applying for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 
Chinese Computing at Latrobe University, Bendigo, Australia, please send 
email to:

L.Zhangbendigo.latrobe.edu.au


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Dr) Lizhong Zhang, School of Business, Latrobe University, Bendigo, 
VIC 3550, Australia
Email: L.Zhangbendigo.latrobe.edu.au
Homepage: http://redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/~zhang/
Phone: 054-447570 Fax:054-447937