[B-Greek] Writely and Unicode Greek
John McChesney-Young
panis at pacbell.net
Wed Aug 23 00:33:29 EDT 2006
Some members may be aware of the web-based word processor Writely. It
was available to the public briefly earlier this year, went dormant
for a few months after acquisition by Google, and yesterday was again
made publicly available:
http://www.writely.com/
More information about it can be found conveniently at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writely
Patrick Rourke, a member of the Classics list and one of the resident
experts on Unicode Greek, tested it with Unicode polytonic Greek and
found it worked very well with Firefox for Windows, exporting the
document to Word for Windows.
He plans to but hasn't yet tried it on a Mac, but I did so and found
it works on that platform as well, using Firefox and its relatives
Netscape 7.2 and Camino 1.0; it didn't work with Safari 1.x (not the
current version because I'm still running Mac OS 10.2.8), Opera 9, or
IE 5.2. I tested the export to Open Office (.odt) and my test sample
opened fine on my machine with NeoOffice/J.
Two features which might interest listmembers in particular are the
variety of file formats in which documents can be exported, including
besides the ones mentioned above .rtf and .pdf, and that both private
and collaborative work are supported. If you ever find yourself
working on word processing documents at more than one computer and
are frustrated with having to e-mail them back and forth to yourself
as attachments (or whatever your particular solution has been), this
might be a good alternative.
Use of the site requires free registration; although owned by Google,
this is separate from Google registration (as required for
Gmail/Googlemail, for example).
John
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