7. What kind of word processors are available for Hangul?
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This article is from the Hangul & Internet in Korea FAQ, by Jungshik Shin jshin@minerva.cis.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.
7. What kind of word processors are available for Hangul?
On MS-DOS machine, Arae-ah Hangul(HWP) by Hangul & Computer is the most
popular in Korea. Up to v.1.51, it had separate programs for laser printer
and dot-matrix printer. In v.2.0, they were merged into a single program.
There are two different v.2.0,however, one for professional user(200,000 won
or so) and the other for ordinary user (about 100,000 won?). The newest
version of HWP is 3.0 for DOS and 3.0b for MS-Windows 3.1/95. Windows
version includes separates "Hangul-module" so that it runs either under
MS-Windows or under Hangul MS-Windows while most other Hangul W/Ps for
Windows depend on Hangul MS-Windows 3.1/95 to implement Hangul I/O. Hangul &
Computer has developmed X window version of HWP for a while, but in late
1997, its development was handed off to Mizi research which will continue to
develop it with the license from Hangul & Computer. (according to the
article posted to han.comp.os.linux by Seo, Young-jin at yjseo@mizi.co.kr)
For purchase in the US, see Subject 23) and contact Hangul & Computer.
Hangul version of MS-Word, Word Perfect, Hun-min-jong-um and other Hangul
word processors are also available in Korea. All of these require Hangul
MS-Windows to run.
Hangul MS-Word to be run under Hangul MS-Windows can read in HWP 2.0,2.1 and
2.5 format documents. Refer to Microsoft Korean pages at
http://www.microsoft.com/korea
Korean version of famous DTP(desk top publishing) and graphics programs such
as PageMaker,Quark Xpress,Photoshop and Illustrator for Mac and/or
MS-Windows(dealt in by BBcom at http://www.bbcom.com in Korea) are available
through Korean s/w vendors in the US(See Subject 23). Besides, Human
Computer( http://www.human.co.kr) makes Mun-bang-Sa-woo, Korean DTP program,
a few different kinds of Hangul font collections(True Type and Postscript)
and FontMania (Hangul font rendering program).
VADA and SAN are small editor/word processors in public domain. See subject
3).
Under MS-DOS with s/w Hangul( DANSI or DKBI:See Subject 4) ) or h/w Hangul
card, it's possible to use W/P made for English users.
A public domain w/p for MS-Windows 3.1. Mo-dun-gul is available. See Subject
3). Kunsaram at now348501@nownuri.nowcom.co.kr released Iyagi 7.3, a
terminal emulator with built-in Hangul for MS-Windows 3.1/95 includes a
Hangul editor(or simple word processor). For more information, contact
directly Kunsaram. With Hangul MS-Windows 3.1/95 or Hanme Hangul for Windows
2.5 + MS-Windows 3.1/95, (See Subject 4)) one may use Hangul in most W/Ps
made for MS-Window 3.1/95.
For viewing HWP or Hangul MS-Word without HWP or MS-Word, refer to Subject
30
On Mac, NISUS and Word Perfect work fine with Hangul Talk 7.1 and KLK(Korean
Language Kit). Other popular w/p like MS-Word have trouble with Hangul Talk
7.1. Under KLK, Word Perfect,Nisus, ClarisWork and several other
wordprocessors work fine. Unlike earlier version of MS-Word, a newever
version of MS-Word is WS-savvy and known to work well with World Script II
in general and KLK in particular. WorldWrite is less expensive than Nisus
and seems to support KLK well(it's claimed to even support vertical
writing). (Info. on WorldWrite is due to Michael ? at
mromanowski@watson.princeton.edu). Moreover, there are several localized
(for Korean) version of word processors. Nisus Korean version(specifically
geared for Korean word processing) is sold by BBCom(bbcom@nuri.net). Unicorn
editor mentioned in Subject 3 is also known to work well with KLK or Hangul
Talk. See KLK data sheet mentioned in Subject 5 for more on compatibility of
KLK and other softwares. Besides,Hangul & Computer announced that it would
release Mac version of its famous HWP(Arae-Ah Hangul) in early 1997. One may
find it useful to have HWP to Mac format converter available at
ftp://ftp.one-o.com/pub/hanmac/.
Hantori and Electronic Hangul(EH) are said to work well with most programs
for Mac including word processors.
HanMac Word(HM Word) is a word processor developed in Korea and its demo
version is available at Mac Hangul archive. A shareware version of HanMac
word for those outside Korea is available for $35 shareware fee. It's said
to be a full-fledged word processor with powerful features rarely found in
word processor but included only with DTP software such as QuarkXpress.
Hanmac software also offers a number of Hangul-related extensions to
QuartXpress. For more infomation on Han Mac Word, contact HanMac at
http://www.hanmac.com.
See Subject 5) for more on Hangul environment on Mac.
Mun-bang-sa-wu/UX1.1 is a word processor for SUN compatible workstations and
it requires 6MB memory and 10MB disk space. A demo version without file
related functionalities is available at CAIR archive and its mirrors
Hangul & Computer(the vendor of Arae-Ah Hangul) was recently reported to
have developed AraeAh Hangul for X Window. HWP 2.5 for X is now available
from Hangul & Computer. HWP 3.0/X was released in Sep. 1995 and the most
recent demo version(3.0.2 released in May,1996) for several flavor of Unix
including Linux,SCO/Unix, and HP/UX are available at
ftp://ftp.hnc.co.kr/pub/). In early 1998, Mizi
research took over the development of HWP/X from Hangul & Computer. Mizi
released HWP/X 4.0 demo versions for several flavors of Unix including
Linux. For further details, refer to http://www.mizi.co.kr. FreeBSD users
may try Linux version along with Linux compatibility library for FreeBSD.
The following document explains how to use Linux version of HWP/X under
FreeBSD : http://jazz.snu.ac.kr/~junker/work/freebsd/tips/hwpx-freebsd.txt.
OpenHWP is an open source/free software project to build a HWP-compatible
word processor. It was initiated by a group of people who determined to save
HWP(the most famous word processor in Korea) from fallling a prey to the
hands of Microsoft. Up-to-date information is available at
http://www.openhwp.org/. You may consider joining the team.
Chinese Power 3.0 by Jun Yei at jun.yei@linmor.com is a word processor for
Unix/X window(with Motif 1.2) supporting Korean as well as Chinese and
Japanese. It can handle a number of encodings including EUC-KR(Korean 8bit
encoding), EUC-JP(Japanese), HZ,EUC-CN, and Big5(for Chinese)
"Unicode-native-encoding",UTF7 and UTF8 (for Unicode). [Posted to Usenet
newsgroup han.comp.hangul by Gilbert Yun at mingtian@hotmail.com. You can
get it at ftp://ccic.ifcss.org/pub/software/x-win/editor/. You need to have
Motif 1.2 libraries and header files to compile it. My attempt to compile it
with lesstif(free Motif clone) under Linux succeeded, but the compiled
binary doesn't work well.(It sort of worked, but not very much usable).
According to W. Choi at choiw1@intac.com and information posted at
http://www.hnc.co.kr/what/9611.html, HWP for OS/2 will be released, soon.
Demo version of HWP for OS/2 is available in e:/mirror/hncpm at
ftp://203.239.110.3
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