Features of Volga-Writer^©

• Full-featured Bilingual Word Processor
• High quality Cyrillic True-Type fonts in serif and sans-serif styles
• Text saved in Rich Text Format with all formatting directives
• Typing switches between Russian and English at a single keystroke
• Transliteration from Russian to phonetic English
• Graphics in JPEG, BMP, or GIF can be inserted, sized and moved
• Two keyboard layouts: Standard Russian and Homophonic
• Easy conversion among the commonly used font mapping formats
• Support for Unicode

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Below is a reprint of the opening paragraphs of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" as translated by Vladimir Nabokov into Russian. The sample was done by Volga-Writer.

This web site was generated using Microsoft Front Page. It is intended to showcase the Volga-Writer application, and provide some background information on the problems of Cyrillic word-processing, and the author as well. Any comments and suggestions are welcome. Send to:  tavolga@aol.com. 

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