Subject: Macintosh program (Editers for Chinese)

From: "Z. Sun" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 22:31:56 -0400

If you don't want to spend big money on WordPerfect 2.1.3 or Nisus 3.4 for
Chinese word processing, or if you don't care the fancy style/layout features
of those programs, there are quite a few free/sharewear programs available
for Chinese script display/input (and Chinese character output).

My current favorate is TexEdit (1.8.x), a System 7 savy program that allows
multiple styles of TEXT. Lots of good features, such as variable fonts/sizes
and styles (plain, bold, italic, underline, outline, shaddow). It works with
both the simplified and traditional Chinese systems (one key stroke equals
one Chinese character when using the cursor keys and delete key). Document
will retain the font/size/style info if reopened with the same program. But
the file type of the documents is TEXT, so they can be opened with many other
WP programs and editers.

Many other TEXT editers also support the two-byte language scripts. Examples
include QRead DA, miniWriter DA, MacSink, FlashWriter, etc. etc.
If you have the Chinese operating system installed, all of these programs
support Hanyu Pinyin input method.

Jack Z. Sun