1. What is the CE Uniwriter Series?
LP Laser Publishing Group's CE UniWriter is a series of applications
that let you express yourself in more than one hundred languages
and allow you to use a number of different input methods within
an application. No matter whether you are a native speaker or learning
a second language, UniWriter is a breeze to learn and simple to
use. With CE UniWriter, you can communicate easily in just about
any language and type letters, business documents, school lessons,
e-mail and more without having to learn a new keyboard layout for
every language.
The documents created by CE UniWriter are compatible with MS Pocket
Office and MS Office 2000.
CE UniWriter supports HPC, HPC Pro, PPC
2. New Features of CE UniWriter
- Familiar-looking menu bar and tool bar let you type in any language
instantly.
- Uses the Unicode Standard to support Unicode text format input.
With Unicode-encoded text, system platform problems are a thing
of the past, so your documents can be sent around the globe without
a hitch. UniWriter is a truly "on the go" application.
- Allows you to use different input methods to create documents
in any language quickly and effortlessly.
- Working within your favorite applications, you can easily cut
and paste text into MS Pocket Office and MS Office 2000.
- Sizable Soft Keyboard gives you the option to type in the language
you selected.
- LPG's Character Map let you view Unicode True Type fonts and
input text.
3. Getting Started
- Install UniWriter into your CE unit.
- To start the application from the Start menu, click the UniWriter
icon in the Programs folder.
- Choose Language Input from the Language menu.
- Select an input method from the Options menu.
- You may change the language input and input method at any time
while editing your document.
- Save your document in the appropriate text format.
- To exit the application, click Exit from the File menu.
4. Using Different Input Methods
The following input method lets you type as many different languages
as you wish into one document. You must first select the Language,
Language Input, Font and Font Size from UniWriter's menu and toolbar,
then select the input method. Or you may select the input method
first, then select the language to type.
- To use Soft Keyboard
- Choose Soft Keyboard from the Options menu, or click the Soft
Keyboard button on the toolbar. Note that Soft Keyboard appears
in the UniWriter text edit area. The caption on the Soft Keyboard
title bar indicates the language of the keyboard layout.
- To change the Soft Keyboard layout, select Language Input
from the menu or Language on the UniWriter toolbar.
- Soft Keyboard may be dragged to anywhere on the screen. Soft
Keyboard may also be resized by dragging the edges of the Soft
Keyboard.
- Click the Soft Keyboard keys to type.
- To use Physical Keyboard (Optional)
- Once you change Language Input or Language from the menu or
the toolbar, UniWriter automatically translates the physical
keyboard input into the new language layout.
- The new physical keyboard layout is consistent with the new
Soft Keyboard layout. You may use either keyboard layouts to
type.
- After exiting the Type and Learn application, the physical
keyboard returns to the original keyboard layout.
- To use Character Map
- Choose Character Map from the Options Menu or click the Character
Map button on the toolbar
- Choose Language on the Character Map and click the Go button.
- Select Font... from the Options menu. Character Map will display
the character only with the fonts provided.
- Click the scroll bar to turn the pages of Character Map.
- Click the character to input it into the text editor.
- To use Unicode Value Input
- Choose Unicode Input from the Options Menu.
- A form appears in the text edit area for Unicode value input
- Type the Unicode value into the text box. UniWriter will turn
the Unicode value into a relative character, click the character
or click the Insert button to type it into text editor.
5. Selecting Fonts
- When you select Language or Language Input, UniWriter will automatically
select the font(s) available for a specific language.
- To change the pre-selected font, click Language Input on the
toolbar.
- To select a font from the font dialog box, choose Fonts... from
the Options menu. The font dialog box appears and you may select
a font for a specific language.
6. Opening and Saving A File
- To open a text file, choose Open from the File menu. From the
File-Open dialog box, select the correct file format to open the
file. Uniwriter will not open the file correctly if you choose
the wrong file format.
- To save a new file, choose Save As from the File menu. From
the Save As dialog box select the proper file format to save the
file.
7. Tips and Tricks
7-1.
Using Unicode Standard
According to The Unicode Consortium, the Unicode standard "is the
authoritative source of information on the Unicode character encoding
standard, an international character code for information processing
that includes all major scripts of the world. As well as encoding
characters used for written communication in a simple and consistent
manner, the Unicode Standard defines character properties and algorithms
for use in implementations." For more information on the Unicode Standard,
visit The Unicode Consortium web site at www.Unicode.org
7-2. Using Unicode Font Viewer
The Character Map can display characters for all the languages and
fonts that are available on your CE unit. You may use Unicode Character
Map as the Unicode Font viewer.
- Install Unicode fonts into your system's font folder.
- Start UniWriter and choose Character Map from the Options menu.
- Open the Font dialog box in the Options menu.
- Select the font you want to view.
- Click the scroll bar in Character Map to view the Unicode font.
7-3. Finding More Unicode Fonts for
Your Application
There are several good places to obtain Unicode font information:
Agfa company
is currently the only font company that can supply a font with
full Unicode 3.0 support.
Also look
in Chapter 8 of The Windows 98 Bible published by Peachpit Press,
for more details about fonts and Unicode font. This is one of
the best sources you can find on the book market.
If you want
to know more about Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese
fonts, especially CJKV Unicode fonts, please find a book "CJKV
- Information Processing" published by O'reilly. This is
one of the best book of "Chinese, Japanese, Korean &
Vietnamese Computing"
7-4. Working with MS Pocket Office,
Office 2000
LP Group's UniWriter has adopted the Unicode Standard. It supports
true multi-language word processing. MS Windows NT, MS Office
2000 and MS Pocket Office fully support Unicode characters,
providing multi-language support within each font. You have
several options to work with your favorite applications:
- Easily
cut and paste text into MS' Word, Excel, or Access documents,
and choose the Unicode font to display the text.
- To save
or print "Unicode-Rich Text Format (Unicode-rtf)" documents:
- Create
or edit multi-language document by using UniWriter and save
as Unicode formatted text.
- Open
the Unicode-formatted text by using MS Word or Windows 98
WordPad, format the multi-language document, then save the
document in Rich Text Format (.rtf). Print the document.
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