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- Subject: Multi-Lingual Scholar
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- Interested to see that someone raises the issue of MLS here. If your major
- need is for non-Roman scripts, MLS can't be beat. Let's face it, all
- that NB does is Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrere (Hebrew - keyboard problems!).
- For those of us (a) non in a Mac0-World and (b) aware that there IS a
- wider woirld, this is pretty thin pickings. MLS adds good Arabic and
- Farsi (Urdu is there, but a bit troubled). Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati,
- Punjabi are available now and other South Asian Languages are coming
- (since you can, if you wish, design or scan-in your own fonts). As I
- recall (outside the area of my need), Korean, Cuneiform, IPA, and others
- are availeble. All this in addition to the short-list of NB. Not bad!
- BUT (and this is a BIG "BUT"), if you are looking for a full-featured,
- easy to use, prefo - properly (!) structured professional word processor,
- MLS doesn't measure up.
- I should add: I have NOT seen or used it in the most recent (4.0?)
- version. I believe things like spelling checkers have been added (and
- think about THAT!). As NB becomes more and more frustrating, I, for
- one, have dusted off the MLS manual and taken another hard look at it.
- Even at the "opea - "optimum peak", NB just doidn't cut it as a multi-
- lingual word processor outside a very NARROW market. MLS is the tool
- for this. If it were only a better o wrd processor! Why, of why, didn't
- THEY buy NB!
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