Rashumon | |
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Original author(s) | HarmonySoft |
Initial release | 1989 |
Stable release | "student" version / 1995 |
Operating system | Amiga OS |
Platform | Amiga |
Type | Word processor |
Website | http://www.rashumon.com/ |
Rashumon was a multilingual graphical word processor developed for the Amiga computer by an Israel-based company called HarmonySoft (founded by Michael Haephrati in 1989) [1] and was sold until after the demise of Commodore in 1994 (a lower-priced "student" version was released in 1995 [2] ). [3] Rashumon had particular support for Hebrew, Arabic [4] [5] and Russian as well as English, and it could send its text to speech synthesis in English. [6]
Rashumon was the only word processor for the Amiga having the ability to create and edit multilingual documents. [7] [8] Rashumon printed using Type 1 PostScript fonts [9] and it also supported Intellifont. [10]
Rashumon was named after a Japanese movie which had four different characters giving different versions of the same event. Amiga User International commented that this name seemed appropriate for a wordprocessor designed to support multiple languages. [11]
now supports Arabic. Mr. John Hajjer of L.C.P.S. worked on the new set of Arabic, Syriac and Fersi fonts and keymaps.