Re: tlug: Advantages of 'pine' and others

[Jon Babcock <jon@example.com>]

>>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    SJT> If it doesn't do C and K out of the box, it should be easy
    SJT> enough to configure by adding MIME charsets and if necessary
    SJT> corresponding fonts to the vm tables.

Thanks again, Stephen. Time to give XEmacs another try. 

(I just wish I had not wasted my youth studying Chinese, Japanese,
Buddhist prajnaparamita and avatamsaka texts, etc., and had learned
some real languages --- C, C++, Lisp, --- instead. I jump into a
classical Chinese text with gusto, confidence and hope, but when it
comes to installing and configuring a new program, I think, "Damn!
Another miserable couple years with no guarantee of results. It
doesn't help to recall that all the rest on this list and my son,
Michael, could do this blind-folded while carrying on a discussion of
IP masquerading on the side.)

The only computer illiterate on the tlug list, woo is to me, Jon,

who only wants a fully multi-scriptual editor, that works seamlessly
with TeX (or something like it) and prints on a PS printer AND a
translation major mode that includes

A multi-scriptural interface with primary resources such as,

Web searches/ Honyaku archives/ EB dictionaries/ Homemade glossaries/
Translation memory

AND

back office functions such as Invoice generation/ Jobs database/
Management Reports (Production Rate, Job Status, Client Status, ...) 

AND

Translation Production Speed-up Technologies such as, Auto-replace,
Spell-checking, Thesaurus Help, Auto-backups, Version control,
Source-target cross reference index, ... 

AND

Dictation text entry and program control.

Now, is that too much to ask?


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