Re: Much a do about Nothing! -NO UNIQUE & EASY TELUGU SOFTWARE
V. Chowdary Jampala (cjampala@quark.dayton.net)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:10:09 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Ramana R. Juvvadi wrote:
> If you mean MS Word or WordPerfect by Windows wordprocessing, I have a
> couple of comments. It is extremely unlikely that somebody will come
> up with a Telugu software which can work with MS Word. The reason is very
> simple. The format of MS Word files is not open. Microsoft has no
> intention of publishing it. Companies employ teams of
> programmers to crack each other's formats. MS Word provides
> macros to handle tricky situations but I doubt the macros are
> powerful enough to handle something like RIT. Any MS Word macro based
> scheme is more likely to be a direct keyboard mapping.
I did not specifically mean MS Word, but that too was included. It
is essential in my view that the fonts could be used the same way as I
would use Arial or Times New Roman. I remember being able to do so with
pOtana. I am told that you can do it with the vision systems software.
Regards --- Chowdary Jampala