Re: [tlug] But Nano does do regex. Tate Japanese style text editing.

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Micheal E Cooper wrote:

> > David Santinoli, Milano             +   <david@example.com>
> > You can do "real" furigana (here called "Ruby text") too:
> > enable it in Format -> Page -> Text Grid.
> >    
>
> Are these features also available in the English version, or is this
> specific to the Japanese version? I ask because I fell flat on my face in
> my previous job when I tried to persuade several Japanese coworkers to try
> OpenOffice, only to find that the Japanese features were terrible...
> really terrible.
>
> However, that was at least two years ago, if not more, and OpenOffice was
> not ripe yet.
>
> More to the point, can I get full Japanese capabilities in the English
> version?

Well, try it out!  When I began using the previous (and ongoing 
commercial) version StarOffice 5.1/5.2, it was nearly impossible to even 
input Japanese text.  With each version, local language support has 
gotten better and better (and I hear that StarOffice has a lot more 
fonts).  That said, if people are expecting it to be a carbon copy of 
bloody MS-Office, they're making a fundamental mistake I think.  Once 
weaned of illegal MS-Junk though, they should be happy with it.  Or... 
maybe the best thing is to have them phase it in gradually, using it 
(alongside MS-Word) for regular text functions first, and then working 
into the features is has.

Lyle