Information on LRC media holdings and policies:
How to Josiah and find out what the LRC has.
How to check out a video, DVD, or CD-ROM from the LRC.
How to put materials on course reserve for my class.
How to watch foreign language television at Brown.
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Computer Programs Available at the LRC and How to Get Started Using Them:
Below is a comprehensive list of the computer programs and web-based tools available at the LRC.
Clicking on a link will open a Quickstart guide to using that particular program.
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Input Various Languages on a Mac or PC:
If you are trying to write a document in a foreign language, the LRC is here to help. Below is a list of languages officialy supported at the LRC. Clicking on a link will lead you to instructions for inputing that specific language on a Mac or PC.
Mac Quickstarts:
PC Quickstarts:
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Using Spell Check for a Document Written in a Language Other Than English:
The first and most important step when using Spell Check for a text written in a foreign language is changing the default language of the document in Microsoft Word. Once the language of the document is set, Word will automatically use that language's dictionary when it checks spelling, and you can check spelling and grammar just as you normally would for an English document.
If you are using a PC, you can change the document language by going to the "Tools" menu at the top of the screen, pointing to "Language" and then clicking on "Set Language." (Tools > Language > Set Language) More detailed instructions using Spell Check on a PC can be found here.
On a Mac, you can set the document language by clicking on "Language" in the "Tools" menu at the top of the screen. (Tools > Language) You can read more about Spell Check on a Mac here.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Word can only check the spelling of a document if the dictionary for the desired language is installed on the computer. Even if a language is listed when setting the document language, this does not necessarily mean that the dictionary for that language has been installed on the computer.
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General Information on Fonts and Input Methods:
How to find and use new fonts.
How to create a Web page or other documents in other languages.
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Fonts, Accents and Multilingual Computing:
Mac and Windows computers in the Language Lab (CIT 201) are equipped with word processing software enabled for all Western European languages taught at Brown as well as Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Sanskrit. Spell checking software is available for many languages. A laser printer is available for output in all languages.
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Downloading and Using Other Fonts:
If you're word-processing or are navigating the Web in a non-European language and characters aren't displaying correctly, you may need to download a font associated with the language you're using. Below are some links to font resources on the Web: Summer Institute of Linguistics , an extensive resource of fonts and word processing software for Roman and Non-Roman character sets, Mac and Windows, contemporary and ancient languages.
Yamada Font Archive , University of Oregon.
International Characters : Theory, Charts, & Tips for Mac and Windows, University of Massachusetts.
Cuneiform for TeX and LaTeX.
Ancient Greek for a variety of platforms. Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - Fonts Help page.
Old Italic Fonts. Luc Devroye, School of Computer Science, McGill University.
International Phonetic Alphabet fonts for Mac and Windows.
Syriac for Windows XP.
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Producing multi-language documents and Web pages:
HTML : World Wide Web Consortium.
WWW Development Resources , a robust collection, by the HTML Writers Guild .
The Unicode Consortium, developers of 16-bit encoding for the all the world's languages.
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Watching Foreign Language TV at Brown:
Three channels of international programming are available on Brown's cable TV system. Monitors with cable input are available in CIT 210.
Channel 10: Brown subscribes to SCOLA, an educational consortium that downloads from satellites and tapes for retransmission daily news broadcasts from some thirty countries. Check SCOLA's current schedule here.
Channel 11: a continuous direct satellite feed of RTN, a Russian network.
Channel 26: UNIVISIÓN, general interest Spanish language programming for North America.
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