[Biblical-languages] Office for OS X
biblang at ntresources.com
biblang at ntresources.com
Wed Feb 4 08:36:04 EST 2004
Thanks Patrick. (Perhaps you saw my note to the contrary on Macintouch?)
Apparently not everyone at MS is aware of this--which I consider to be very
welcome news indeed. Is there any public URL where there is more info
available (since I'm not on the Unicode list to which you refer)? I've found
nothing on MS's site.
The info that I reported on Macintouch came from a MS rep on their contact
line via one of my students, so either he misunderstood, or those who answer
MS's phone don't have good (or at least complete) info.
On a related note, I've nearly finished a Mac OS X (10.2 or 10.3) XML
keyboard for polytonic Greek that tries to follow TLG's beta code
scheme--though the limitations (I'm not sure if mine or OS X's!) make some
adjustments necessary. I'll post it on my Unicode page and note it here when
it is finished. I have at least one more "proof-reading"/test run to
complete before making it available.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick T Rourke
> [mailto:ptrourke.at.methymna.com at biblang.at.ntresources.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 7:20 PM
> To: biblical-languages at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [Biblical-languages] Office for OS X
>
>
> There seems to be some mistaken information floating about regarding
> the new version of Microsoft Office for OS X and Unicode
> support, so I
> thought I'd post a copy of a public message one of the people working
> on the software posted to the Unicode list . My apologies to
> members of
> the list who have already seen it :
>
> [quote]
> From: Han-Yi Shaw
> To: Deborah Goldsmith ; Tom Gewecke
> Cc: unicode at unicode.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:01 AM
> Subject: RE: New MS Mac Office and Unicode?
>
> Indeed, as many of you have already heard from our public
> announcement last week, my team has indeed been hard at work making
> Office for Macintosh into a Unicode-throughout suite of
> applications.
> Following our public announcement, we have seen an overwhelmingly
> positive response from our international and multilingual user base
> concerning our long awaited Unicode support. Since much of
> this is now
> public information, allow me to share it with you as well.
>
> As noted below, Office 2004 for Macintosh will support the input,
> display, and basic editing of Unicode characters associated with the
> following keyboards (tentative list):
>
> Australian, Austrian, Belgian, Brazilian, British, Bulgarian,
> Canadian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese
> (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian,
> Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Korean, Hawaiian, Hungarian,
> Icelandic, Inuktitut, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian,
> Macedonian, Norwegian, Northern Sami, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,
> Russian, Serbian, Serbian-Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish,
> Swiss French, Swiss German, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh.
>
> Input of the above languages will also be supported through the
> following system-level Unicode input methods: Unicode Hex Input, US
> Extended, and the Character Palette. Additionally, along
> with Unicode
> versions of such Roman fonts as Times New Roman and Japanese fonts as
> MS Mincho/PMincho, Office 2004 for Macintosh will deliver vastly
> improved layout compatibility and character fidelity with Office for
> Windows.
>
> Thanks,
> Han-yi
> [/quote]
>
>
> I suspect (based on the followup comments to this) that it means
> polytonic Greek yes, Hebrew no - at least, not in the 2004 version.
>
>
> Patrick Rourke
>
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