Lingua provides a full range of functionality in Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Arabic, as well as an extensive character inventory which includes the International Phonetic Alphabet and characters used in African languages. Over 1,700 distinct characters can be entered and over 230 distinct accents that can be added to any character, in virtually any combination. Write in Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew or Arabic and mix languages in the same document or even on the same line. You can select a right-to-left orientation so that Hebrew and Arabic text will begin at the right margin. Or you can integrate Hebrew and Arabic in a document with a primary left-to-right orientation. In either case, Hebrew and Arabic characters will be entered from right to left and words will wrap properly from line to line. Accents, breathing marks, vowels, and cantillations (depending on the alphabet) are entered easily with pop-up dialogs and/or simple key combinations. In addition, full character contextualization (sigma in Greek, final forms in Hebrew, and stand-alone, initial, medial, and final forms in Hebrew) is handled automatically.

Optional modules extend support for biblical scholars and classicists to Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac, and Coptic.

Lingua allows you to work in different languages in a way that would not be possible with mere font changes. In addition to full right-to-left functionality in Hebrew and Arabic, you will find that vowels and accents are positioned much more accurately. The program will automatically take into account the height or width of a character in placing a vowel or accent. For letters that vary depending on their position in a word (e.g., the Greek sigma), Lingua will automatically select the correct form. You can also search, sort, change case and perform other linguistic fuctions. Use Lingua to produce superb camera-ready copy or export to other programs using our RTF filter with Unicode encoding.