[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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*** John McChesney-Young  **  panis~at~pacbell.net  **   Berkeley, 
California, U.S.A.  ***



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