WordPerfect offers nice character-sets for languages with non-latin characters. The only way to type them, however, is using ctrl-W (the symbols window). I developed my Greek, Hebrew and Cyrillic WP Assistants to make typing in these languages easy and perspicious, feeling like you have a full wordprocessor in one of those languages.They are freeware and can be downloaded here.
Greek WP Assistant
WP comes with an excellent Greek character-set. It is not easy however to type more than a few characters, especially if complex characters are involved.
Greek WP Assistant is intended to make Greek typing easy and perspicuous. It is available in five versions, for the different versions of WordPerfect. Click on the WP-version you are using.
- GWA 1.1 for WP 5.1 DOS
- GWA 2.2 for WP 6.0 DOS
- GWA 3.1 for WP 6.0a and 6.1 Win
- GWA 4.1 for WP 7 – 9
- GWA 5.0 for WP 10 and up
Hebrew WP Assistant
WP comes with a nice Hebrew character-set and it has become a little better each new version. Typing them, however, is not easy. Combinations of consonants and vowels are rather complex and you’d like to enter text from right to left.
Hebrew WP Assistant was developed to make all this easy and perspicuous. It is available in five versions, for the different versions of WordPerfect. Click on the WP-version you are using. Of course, Win will give the best results. You’ll be surprised, however, to find out how much is possible with the older versions.
- HWA 1.1 for WP 5.1 DOS
- HWA 1.1b for WP 5.1 DOS (Hebrew layout)
- HWA 2.3 for WP 6.0 DOS
- HWA 3.2 for WP 6.0a and 6.1 Win
- HWA 4.1 for WP 7 – 9
- HWA 5.0 for WP 10 and up
Cyrillic WP Assistant
The total Cyrillic character-set is meant to enable typing Russian as well as related languages, such as Croatian, Serb etc. CWA is primarily designed to type the Russian characters on one of the Latin keyboards (US, UK etc.). It offers all the characters of the so called Russian 3 keyboard and a few more. It was developed following the specifications of the Keele University (U.K.) and it is available in four versions.
Hello Willem: your language assistants are excellent. Thank you. I would like to persuade you to add four accents and one vowel that occur frequently in introductory grammars but are hard to reproduce in typescript:
Munah
Silluq
Athnah
Metheg
Patah furtive
I think these would be worth having available in HWA and I believe they are available in the WP character set. Good wishes from Canada.
John
Can you tell me what I need to purchase to write in Croatian in my WordPerfect 10 program??
Ann Vitorovich
I just want to commend and thank you for the brilliant and easy-to-set-up Greek and Russian font sets.
All the other systems for writing, especially Russian, in WordPerfect are complicated and I have had difficulty setting them up. Your system was one hundred times simpler and more effective. I have had to switch to Microsoft Word to do my Greek but now I can stay in WordPerfect, my preferred wordprocessing program.
Thanks again,
Gary Rosenshield
Thank you very much indeed for the macro CtrlShiftH.wcm by which it has become so easy to type Hebrew.
Do you think you could present us a similar macro by which to write Arabic? In spite of looking around in Google’s pages I have not found any indication about a comfortable way to write Arabic in WordPerfect (I am using version 8.0), while WordPerfect includes a special font (WP Arabic Shihafa) and Windows offers at least two nice fonts (Traditional Arabic and Andalus).
Kind regards from Germany
J.Krecher
@ Dr. Krecher: Thank you for your response. I have written a Cyrillic keyboard while not understanding that language but Arabic is one step too difficult, I am afraid. And, to be honest, I have long forgotten how I managed to create these macro’s ;-)
Hi Willem, I’ve been using your WordPerfect Language Assistants for years. They have been a great help, thank you! Recently I’ve noticed that there are display problems using the Hebrew Assistant in WordPerfect X4. The WordPerfect Character Set inserts the Hebrew Characters from right to left. The Hwa.wcm macro appears to insert them from left to right (unless typing with vowels is executed) in the document but then in reveal codes they appear inserted from right to left! Could this be happening because WordPerfect has introduced a left to right insertion procedure for the Hebrew Character set? Would you know of any way to fix it? Thanks, Phil
@phil: HWA assumes that there is no native right-to-left and therefore it simulates it. If Corel introduced native right-to-left, the macro will be fooled. I’m sorry: I don’t have later versions than X3 and, as stated in earlier message, I am no longer able to edit the stuff. Honestly, I would expect them to be obsolete. Can’t you simply switch to a Windows Hebrew keyboard-definition?
Willem: 10 years ago I produced some materials using the Greek font that came with WordPerfect, then later had to switch to Word. Now I need to go back and convert my old files, but no longer have a copy of the old font. Can you suggest where I might get a copy of the WordPrfect font to instal so that I can properly open and display my old files. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the Hebrew macro and keyboard map. I’ve been a WordPerfect user from the beginning in the 1980s, and I so prefer it over Word. This will make my Fulbright visit to Israel so much easier for me.
I downloaded this last night and could not get it to work at first but only tried for about 5 minutes because I was too tired! Today I gae it another try, switching things to right justification and presto, everything worked beautifully. I haven’t checked everything, but noticed that the backspace fails to perform a backspace-delete, whereas delete works just fine. I also found that there is a problem with WordPerfect 11 freezing up without being able to cancel the macro. I am going to look into this further since it is probably my stupidity, but perhaps you know otherwise and have a workaround for it. Thanks for what I know will be a great Hebrew Assistant from a great Hebrew Assistant!