From veronis@univ-aix.frThu May 23 13:55:15 1996
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:45:13 +0000
From: Jean Ve'ronis 
To: corpora@hd.uib.no, LINGUIST@tamvm1.tamu.edu,
    humanist@lists.Princeton.EDU, humbul@mail.rl.ac.uk, ln@cnusc.fr,
    nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, empiricists@unagi.cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Soft: MtScript (Multilingual editor)


*** ANNOUNCING FREE SOFTWARE ALPHA RELEASE ***

      MtScript - The Multext multi-lingual text editor


We are pleased to announce an alpha release of the multi-lingual text editor 
developed within the MULTEXT project, which provides facilities for creating and 
saving files in a wide variety of languages and corresponding character sets. 
MtScript provides the following main capabilities:

o the use of several different writing systems (Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, 
  Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) in the same document;

o interspersing left-to-right and right-to-left writing systems
  (e.g. : Arabic - French - Hebrew - English);

o explicit association of portions of a text with a particular language;

o the definition of user-modifiable writing rules for each language;

o use of a standard keyboard for any language and character set;

o co-mingling of one-byte and multiple-byte character sets (ISO 8859
  series, GB_2312_80, BIG_5, JISX0208, KSC5601).

MtScript is freely available for non-commercial, non-military purposes (see our 
User agreement). A compiled alpha version (v1.1) for Sun Sparc stations under 
Solaris 1.x or 2.x can be downloaded from the URL

  

Note that MtScript is an alpha version with bugs and limitations It is
being distributed "as is" in order to solicit feedback. We invite the
user community to send comments and advice, provide additonal fonts, help
write language rules, etc.

Jean Ve'ronis
Multext project Coordinator_______________veronis@univ-aix.fr





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