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From: Reinhold Meyer, Forstliche Biome...
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 16:32

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From: RCJ@automation.university-library.cambridge.ac.uk
Subject: any specific suggestions you'd like

>If you have any specific suggestions you'd like us to consider for
>future versions of Word, please let me know. I'll forward them to our
>program managers.

Yes. One simple thing:

The ability to put any diacritical mark on any character.

So that one need no longer say that Word is quite useless for the majority
of languages in romanized script!

e.g. o with both macron and reversed cedilla (Vietnamese)
     d with dot below (Bengali)
     T with ligature up (Russian)
     h with dot below (Tibetan)
     m with candrabindu (Sanskrit)
     ae diaresis with macron (Thai)
     a with both macron and dot below (Santali)
     s with acute (Limbu)

and several hundred others.

If the reason is simply ignorance of the need then I would be happy to help
you develop Word so that it could handle all the languages of the world
in their romanized forms. I understand the need, you have people who could
program the solution.

Craig Jamieson
Oriental Division
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DR
England

(0223) 333 000
FAX: (0223) 333 160

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