cirillic, arabic, japanese( kanaji, katanka, hiragana) charsets in word x needed

[Bruno]

Hi,
we need the above mentioned typefaces for japanese, arabic and russian
language in word x (in mac os x).
Can anyone help how to do?
Bruno

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi,
we need the above mentioned typefaces for japanese, arabic and russian
language in word x (in mac os x).
Can anyone help how to do?
Bruno

You can't get them in Word. You need Unicode support (as well as right
to left for some of them) and Word X doesn't offer that in the current
version.


Corentin

 

[Bruno]

Thank you. Do you know an anlternative? I heard shaware Mellel 1.6.8 can do
that. Is it usable for language professionals?
Bruno

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Thank you. Do you know an anlternative? I heard shaware Mellel 1.6.8 can do
that. Is it usable for language professionals?
Bruno

Mellel can and Nisus is working on it.
I would have guessees that Adobe FrameMaker could, but Adobe doesn't
seem to be able to come out with a MacOS X version (even though they've
had UNIX versions for years :-< ).

Corentin

 

[Walter H. Drew]

we need the above mentioned typefaces for japanese, arabic and russian
language in word x (in mac os x).
Can anyone help how to do?

In belated response to your post, let me assure you that Word X handles
Japanese easily and beautifully.

First, if you have not already done so, download the Japanese fonts and
keyboard system (Kotoeri) for Mac from the original installation disk number
one for your Mac OS X system. Start the installation and you will soon see a
page with a box labeled Custom. Click this and you will be given a chance to
install Japanese fonts (typefaces) and also any of the other fonts listed
there. When that is done you can leave the installer without going through
the whole system reinstallation process.

Then, in Word, open the Help dropdown menu and type "Japanese" in the search
box. Among the various responses is this one.

Enable editing of Japanese text in Office programs

1. Install the Microsoft Language Register by using the Value Pack installer
on your Microsoft Office X CD. For more information about installing Value
Pack components, see the Guide to the Value Pack in the Value Pack folder on
your CD.

2. Drag the application icon for the application that you want to enable
Japanese text editing for on top of the Microsoft Language Register utility.

3. In the Select the language to enable for pop-up menu, click Japanese.

Walter

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Word Mac will also do Russian and other Cyrillic-alphabet languages just
fine, with Cyrillic installed in OS X. (In OS 10.2, that might be an option,
in 10.3 it should just be there. In 10.1 it was more complicated, so let us
know if that's your case.) You can check in System
Preferences/International. In OS 10.2 "Keyboard Menu" tab, in OS 10.3 "Input
Menu" tab.

Unfortunately, Arabic, Hebrew and other left-to-right languages are not
useable in Word Mac, due to constraints of the the text engine. Also, there
are some alphabets - accented Greek, Thai, for example - which are not
available in Word X although they are in TextEdit in OS 10.3 and 10.2.
Hopefully that might be addressed in a later version of Word Mac.

--
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