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- From: mcmains@unt.edu (Sean McMains)
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- Subject: Re: TextEdit, International Scripts and others....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.232151.3134@mercury.unt.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 23:21:51 GMT
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- In article <7NOV199211093584@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu> Alexandre Khalil,
- 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu writes:
- > Hello, I am looking for a wordprocessor that, like TeachText, could be
- used
- >under Arabic/Hebrew System 6/7.
- >
- > I have been told that the reason why regular wordprocessors fail to
- pass
- >the international scripts tests is that they bypass TextEdit to handle
- >text management more efficiently:
- >
- > - Is there a wordprocessor that is more elaborate than TeachText (
- font
- >and styles handling, formatting ) but still uses TextEdit ?
-
- One of the main reasons that many (read "All") wordprocessors don't use
- the TextEdit routines is that these routines are currently limited to
- about 32,000 characters. Anything that wants to use more than this number
- of characters must provide its own routines for text handling. Therefore,
- one would be hard pressed to come up with a wordprocessor that will
- likely be able to used instantly under the Arabic/Hebrew system software.
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