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Jeff Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> wrote:

> Actually I haven't tried Nisus... I've heard truely wonderful things about
> it, though.  Does it have a more powerful Front-End Processor?  (This is
> the one thing that I really like about Linux)

No, it uses Kotoeri (or Atok8 if you use that). It is good since it can
do all kinds of things like full Japanese support, in-line entry (which
is a new kind of front-end processor, I guess, compared to Kotoeri's
window), furigana above kanji, that kind of thing.

> As for True Type Fonts, you have actually hit on one of the sore spots for
> the Linux community.  There is no True Type Font renderer for free under
> Linux and X-Windows.  There is also no Free True Type Font set with kanji
> available for free on the internet.  (Actually one was just announced
> under sci.lang.japan, but it doesn't follow the correct order, and the
> kanjis are quite inconsistent in style)

Okay. Then a while sub-world of Mac computing (word and document
processing) is not supported. If I were going to use such an
environment, these limitations would slay me...considering the things I
use my computer for (making lessons and pamphlets and such).

> I bought a commercial True-Type Font renderer, that I now use with my
> Windows3.1J Kanji True Type Fonts for use under X-Windows...  This
> however, came at a price of about $200 for Windows3.1J, and $40 for the
> TTF Renderer--- ughh. Almost $300! (But I guess we all have our achilles
> heals, and mine is Kanji-Fonts!)

So can you use this Windows truetype thing with Linux? Mac has just one
OS, although there are different versions, so we never have these
problems.

> I'd like to give Nisus a try sometime.  Its good to see that the industry
> is making Japanese support better and better these days!

Nisus is great. The only thing I dislike about it is that it is too big
(4 megs or so) and takes 17 seconds to load.

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