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Though Ergo shut down in early 2008, lead programmers Norihito Hirose and Kenta Arano established their own company Monokaki-do just in time to develop for iOS 2. Core Text also has a reputation of being somewhat buggy and the Core Text documentation on the Apple developer site is weak. From a Japanese developer point of view CoreText on iOS is somewhat useless because it doesn’t support the vertical text layout features of the desktop version. For advanced layout, it’s the only framework available. The big change came when Core Text was rolled into iOS with the iPad only iOS 3.2 release and in iPhone with iOS 4. They still exist in the older Hiragino Pro Hiragino Pro N fonts dropped Glyph Variations.

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I spoke with Ergosoft Marketing Director Isamu Iwata back in 2002, when Ergo used ATSUI for the Japanese advanced layout features in its egword Version 12 word processor package, and in 2007 when Ergo released free Leopard updates to egword Universal 2, the first third-party program built on Core Text.Įgword was the first commercial word processor software package to deliver AAT (Apple Advanced Typography) features such as extended Japanese glyph access, glyph variations and Japanese kerning and did so in a clean easy to understand UI. One Japanese software developer Ergosoft dutifully adopted each and every Apple text technology, perhaps the only developer in the world to to do so. Core Text is the third MacOS Text API makeover for which the few loyal MacOS developers who invested first in QuickDraw GX advanced text and layout technology and then ATSUI, have had to program for. MacOS X 10.5 Leopard introduced a new text framework called CoreText to replace the ATSUI and MLTE Carbon text API. Here are egword related posts from 20 that explain egword and the advanced Japanese typography it brought to a wide audience. Core Text is the heavy-duty lower level text layout engine with the lighter higher level Kits for less complicated typography. It’s nice to know he can keep using his favorite writing tool.Ī long Strange Journey The torturous journey of Apple’s Advanced Typography Frameworks over the years was a dangerous one for developers. Emoji compatibility and vertical layout compatibility a one hour job for Hirose san The software is still super fast as ever.

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Hirose san is tweeting progress in real time, fascinating to read: 64 bit compatibility…check, Emoji compatibility…check, next up retina display compatibility.

I can’t wait to see what they do with egword on macOS and iOS. There is lots of work to do but it’s great that Norihito Hirose and Kenta Arano have their baby back. Believe it or not egword Universal 2 still runs fine on macOS Sierra.

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Hirose san announced the complete transfer of all Ergosoft assets to Monokaki-do on September 4 for what Hirose san said was “a reasonable price.” The first order of business will be releasing a patch for egword Universal 2 to run on High Sierra. A few years later he negotiated a deal to release the venerable Japanese text input module EG Bridge which he relaunched as Kawasemi ( Kingfisher) but egword assets remained out of reach…until this week.

At the time he wanted to continue programming for macOS but Koei KK would not sell him the product assets. I talked with Hirose san in 2010 just as the first iPad hit the market. Norihito Hirose and Kenta Arano, the very talented lead programmers of Ergosoft set up with own company Monokaki-do in early 2008 and created some of the first hit Japanese iPhone apps such as the Japanese dictionary Dajirin. iPhone had not been released in Japan yet and the app economy had not materialized. Unfortunately Ergosoft parent company Koei KK closed down the subsidiary in late 2007 and killed off the entire product line seeing no future in macOS. Clean, fast and rock solid, it was, and still is, the best Japanese work processor I ever used. egword Universal 2 was the first OSX/macOS app built ground up using Apple’s then brand new CoreText framework.

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Ergosoft had just released a spectacular upgrade to their Japanese word processor “egword” which had been on the Japanese market from 1984.

In 2007 I visited the office of Ergosoft near Yokohama for what turned out to be the last time.