Working with Foreign Languages and Characters in WordPerfect

Few WP users know how to put all 1,893 characters available in the program to use. This book explains how to type all these characters, how keyboard layouts can be designed to facilitate typing of specific characters, how to have characters displayed on the screen, and how to print them. The book also discusses the various language codes in WordPerfect, and the hyphenation rules and the dictionaries used in these language codes. The book includes a diskette with the many clever macros and keyboard definitions described in the book, such as a macro to switch between keyboards, a keyboard layout for typing Japanese (both hiragana and katakana), and macros to transliterate Greek or Cyrillic. Indispensable for anyone who frequently types and prints documents using more characters than just the letters of the English alphabet. It is a fact that WordPerfect 5.1 knows 1,893 characters. It is equally true that relatively few WP users know how to put these characters to use. Working with Foreign Languages and Characters in WordPerfect explains how to type all these characters using standard facilities such as the Compose key, and how keyboard layouts can be designed to facilitate typing specific characters. The author not only discusses the facilities offered by WordPerfect to display characters on the screen but explains also how to print them. In a lucid way he demonstrates how screen characters, and the way characters are printed, can be modified using WordPerfect or thirdparty software. WordPerfect contains a large number of language codes. These codes determine how words in a document should be hyphenated and which dictionary should be used for checking the spelling of a document. The author discusses in detail how exception lists can be created to handle special hyphenation rules, and how the dictionaries can be modified. Methods are outlined for creating new dictionaries for languages for which WordPerfect has no dictionaries available. This book is aimed at everybody who frequently needs to type and print documents that contain more characters than only the letters of the English alphabet. The book includes a diskette with the many clever macros and keyboard definitions described in the book, such as a key macro to switch from one keyboard to another, a keyboard layout for typing Japanese, both hiragana and katakana, or macros to transliterate Greek or Cyrillic.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Language modules: files in the language module; installing WordPerfect; installing language modules; the language code. Part 2 Character sets: the compose key; overstrike; sort order; interpunction and punctuation marks; displaying characters; character sets and DOS texts. Part 3 The hyphenation module: hyphenating in WordPerfect; problems and bugs; hyphens; exception list. Part 4 Spell checking: word list; spell checking; word count; looking up words and making lists. Part 5 Thesaurus. Part 6 Maintaining word lists: add words; adding supplementary dictionaries; deleting words; optimizing dictionaries; creating new dictionaries; other functions of the spell program; converting notes text. Part 7 Keyboard layout: keyboard layouts; create a keyboard; defining keys; defining accents; extending the compose key; language specific keyboards; making help screens. Part 8 The font editor: installation; using the font editor; generating a screen font; changing and creating letters; multiple font files in a directory. Part 9 Printers and fonts - printer and font types: font generators; modifying fonts; converting fonts; modifying the printer driver. Part 10 WordPerfect for Windows: configuration; using WP for Windows. Appendices: Overview WP character sets; IBM extended character set; ANSI character set (Windows); character sets per language; transliterating non-Latin scripts - Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Japanese; the macro editor - simple macros, the macro editor, problems in the macro editor, language independent macros.