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Accent Professional $

• Accent Professional offers support for most European languages, including various Cyrillic alphabets, and two right-to-left languages Arabic and Hebrew. Standard command and control features, such as menus and dialog boxes, can be configured to support the selected language. In many (but not all) cases, dictionary, thesaurus, spell-checking, and online help are also available.

• Bi-directional word processing supported.  Accent supports four standard Hebrew keyboards and can handle the contextual character changes that occur in Arabic, including kashida justification (changing the length of the characters rather than the spaces between them to justify the document).  Arabic text can be displayed in simplified or traditional form, and you can opt for either ‘Hindi’ or ‘Arabic’ numerals.

• Accent’s KeyMap feature is invaluable when you’re working in a language that uses a different keyboard layout. A graphic representation of the required keyboard is displayed on screen and you can click on the characters to type them.

• Incorporating the features you’d expect on a standard word processor, Accent Professional 2.0 adds a professional touch to your foreign-language documents.

Global Writer Professional $

• Global Writer 98 works with more than 100 languages.

• Global Writer makes it easy to type letters, faxes, business documents, e-mail, school lessons, and more. And you can do all this without learning a new keyboard layout or stickers.

• Global Writer has a built-in and customizable spell checker and thesaurus.

• Cut and paste text into Microsoft Office 97 documents (limited to such languages as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, European, Greek, Cyrillic, and Turkish.

• Import and export files to Windows, Unicode, ISO Code pages, GB-BIG5, Hanga-Hangul.

• Type left to right or right to left automatically, depending on the language.

• Pop-up language keyboard gives you the option to type in your own language phonetically, without learning a new keyboard layout.

• Check documents in Western European, Russian, and Arabic languages, or customize it for any language.

• Create your own translation dictionaries in any language pair.

• Send and receive multilingual e-mail and faxes with Microsoft Outlook.

• Global Writer lets you type in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and 100 more languages.  Global Writer does not automatically translate.  You must know the language that you are typing.  But you do not need to learn a new keyboard layout because they include special phonetic keyboards for each language based on US, French, or German standard keyboards.  Also included is the standard Windows-based non phonetic keyboards for people who prefer them.

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LinguaWin/LinguaScribe™

• In brief, Lingua Win has the capability of working in the following language families: Asian and Indic, Eastern European, Western European, and Middle East. 

• Asian Indic languages such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Tamil, Vietnamese and Thai are supported ehich enables users to use standard programs to process and mix any or all of these languages with European languages in the same file.  Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and Sanskrit are also supported that enables the user to write in English phonetic alphabet which are then transliterated into any of these languages.

• LinguaWin is available for Eastern European languages.  LinguaWin Cyrillic supports all Cyrillic based languages such as Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Ukrainian.  As in all LinguaWin modules, the program includes True Type fonts, keyboard layouts, keyboard manager, keyboard editor etc.  There are other modules for Eastern European languages with Latin based alphabets such as Polish, Czech, SerboCroat, Bosnian etc.  There are also modules for Albanian, Uzbech, and Azeri.

• LinguaWin Euro enables users to have all Western European languages readily available from within any Windows application.

• In addition to LinguaWin which supports Asian languages, users who have difficulties with Asian alphabets or Asian keyboards may opt for LinguaScribe™.  LinguaScribe™ is an innovation in the processing the foreign languages.  Non-Latin alphabets or writing systems have always posed a challenge for users and programmers because of their larger repertoire of characters, shapes and diacritics that have to be mapped on keyboards that were never designed to handle them. Their mappings are often crammed, cryptic, irrational and not user-friendly. LinguaScribe™ changes all that. It requires only a simple phonetic representation of the text.

Multi-lingual Scholar   $ | Information

• Contact Gamma Productions, Inc., 710 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 609, Santa Monica, CA 90401  (213) 394-8622.

• MLS  is a full featured word processor capable
  of editing, formatting and printing with up to five different alphabets and dozens of languages in the same document  even in footnotes, tables, headers and footers.

• Program comes standard with five alphabets: Roman (English, European and Scandinavian languages), Hebrew (includes
  Yiddish and Aramaic), Greek (Ancient, Biblical and Modern), Cyrillic (Russian and Balkan languages) and Arabic/Persian.

• MLS supports Hewlett-Packard's LaserJet Plus, and Series II/III and DeskJet printers and compatibles at 300 dots per inch resolution.

• Demo disk available upon request.

NisusWriter $ | This is the one to purchase if you are a Mac user.

• Nisus^® Writer handles written documents, large and small, with all the features of Microsoft^® Word, WordPerfect^®, and others.

• In Nisus Writer, you can type in any language script, from left to right or right to left, with a click of the mouse.  Your insertion point moves to the appropriate spot in your file and the text wraps appropriately.  Nisus is the only high-end word processor able to take advantage of all Apple WorldScript^TM languages.

•  Nisus Writer features unlimited undoes, noncontiguous selection, tables, an equation editor, customizable keyboard menu equivalents, complete graphics creation, and an especially powerful macro language for automating repetitive tasks. Create multimedia presentations, course materials, and live reports with movies, recorded sounds, and text-to-speech. You also get desktop publishing tools, "smart" style sheets, auto-indexing, online help and documentation, and more! 

• Their multilingual capabilities take full advantage of WorldScript, letting you combine English, other Romanic languages, Japanese and other two-byte languages, and right-to-left languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and even Russian, in the same document without switching word processors.

Nota Bene $ | InTheBeginning.org highly recommends this program.

• Nota Bene has several different levels from which to choose:  Scholar's Workstation for Windows, a seamless integration of four sophisticated programs, and Lingua Workstation for Windows, a seamless integration of multilingual word processing in Greek, Hebrew and Cyrillic and IPA with the components of Scholar's Workstation.

• Its forte is a word processor for scholars, a comprehensive bibliographic manager for anyone who is tired of typing/formatting their own citations and bibliographies.

• Program features a personal search engine for those who want to find anything they’ve ever written in seconds and a database manager for those who have things to keep track of.

• Nota Bene is a Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, IPA word processor for those who want more than just fonts.  The program includes a set of tools for scholars who desire to focus on their writing and research.

TextViewer | English and Russian

UniVerse Gamma Multilingual $

• Gamma UniVerse for Windows is a complete word processing and font system for most of the world's languages. Even the most complex languages are easy to write and format.

• Capabilities include Arabic, Hebrew and Persian format right-to-left; Chinese and Japanese format horizontally or vertically.   You may mix and match any language combinations.

• Spell check multiple languages in one pass.

• Produce camera-ready, publication quality documents in any of the supported languages.

• Includes Language link for typing all European, Cyrillic and Greek languages directly in all your Windows applications.

Universal Word $

• The Universal Word is powerful, easy to use and Windows 95 compatible. Even if all of you use in English, this very reasonably priced, full featured word processor is really all you need. Then add its multilingual capability to this full featured DTP software, and you have true value in a powerful tool.

• Multilingual tables of contents up to nine levels of identification, justification, adjustable leading, word/letter tracking (spacing), and line spacing, unlimited font sizing up to 1,000 points, multilingual line & page numbering, multilingual Thesaurus & Spell-Checking for 21 languages.

• Complete mail merge in all languages included.

• Support for over 100 major file formats in DOS & Windows.

• Support of image formats include GIF, PCX, BMP, TGA, DCX, TIF, EPS, WMF, WPG, PCT, and JPG.  Powerful image processing capability normally only found in photo editing programs.

WordMate $

• WordMate is a versatile software keyboard that enables the user to type any of a long list of languages directly into virtually any Windows applications.

• Program works in word processors, spreadsheets, database, contact management accounting, DTP, graphics programs, etc. Turn on WordMate and have instant access to numerous languages in all your Windows applications. No cut and paste, just type directly in the language of your choice.

• Note: WordMate is not practical for right to left languages such as Hebrew, Persian, Urdu or Arabic as the left to right input function would not be supported in normal English applications.