RUSLANIA: Orfo 9.0 Professional

Comparison of the Orfo 9.0 versions (In Russian):
Professional Package for Russian language.

Professional package is a high-performance tool for document processing.

Spelling Check
in popular applications (see Applications supported by ORFO);
in the homemade editor;
in the most part of editable windows using hotkeys;

Grammar and Style Check
Hyphenation
Thesaurus: dictionary of synonyms, antonyms and related words
Russian Collection
Russian Grammar Handbook
Find and Replace a word in all the forms
Autosummary
Add a new word with all its forms
Shared morphological user dictionary for all supported applications
All word forms show (with grammatical characteristics)

Why do We Need Spelling-Check System?

No one can produce electronic text without an error. The most popular errors in such texts are typing ones – repeated words, omitted comma, period or space etc. Such errors are easy to make but difficult to discover. To minimize the number of errors and misprints in your text and reduce the time to correct them we propose the spelling-check program.

Orfo Professional is a comprehensive solution for documents check and editing in up-to-date office.

Features of Professional package:

*Spelling check.
Spelling check is realized: in popular applications, in own ORFO editor, and in the most part of editable windows by «hot keys».

*Grammar and Style check.
Improved ORFO Grammar uses more than 40 groups of rules and checks texts in point of three basic styles: Strictly (all rules), for business writing and for casual writing.

*Russian Thesaurus.
Russian Thesaurus comprises more than 70 000 Russian words and expressions. It consists of three dictionaries: Synonyms (more than 10 000 groups of synonyms and about 3.7 synonyms in each group), Antonyms and Related words. ORFO Thesaurus has such unique facilities as: recognition of Russian words irrespectively to their form in the text; the Thesaurus proposes synonyms or antonyms for each word in the same form that the base word has.

*Hyphenation.
Provides full hyphenation of two optional quality level: Newspaper or Book.

*Russian Collection.
A set of Russian dictionaries called Russian Collection includes: Russian Heritage, Russian Dictionary by Dahl, Synonyms, Antonyms, Paronyms, Etymological Dictionary.

*All word forms and it's grammatical characteristics showing.

*Russian Grammar Reference comprises the corpus of punctuation and spelling rules.

*The functions of Microsoft Word: Find and Replace a Word in All Forms; Autosummary of a document, compiling a list of keywords;

As compared with Microsoft Office Grammar ORFO 9.0 is equipped with new grammatical rules. Previous rules were itemized and complemented. It’s possible to work with unlimited number of morphological user dictionaries. A new Toolbar that helps quick call of ORFO features is added.
Each copy of the Orfo software is intended for installing at one computer only.

About ORFO

Our multi-purpose system ORFO 9.0 is a unique Spelling checker for texts in Russian. ORFO includes a large set of linguistic modules necessary for text editing. The program incorporates itself in Microsoft Office and other popular applications. ORFO finds and corrects errors, hyphens words literately and correctly, helps to find and replace a word in any grammatical form. ORFO also checks grammar, syntax and style, makes autosummary of a document and selects keywords. Dictionaries of Russian Collection give extended explanations of Russian words (explanatory dictionaries) and their origin (etymological dictionary) as well as synonyms, antonyms and usage examples (dictionaries of synonyms, antonyms and paronyms). ORFO displays explanation and synonyms of a given word. The program supports united morphological User dictionary: once added to this dictionary the word will be recognised in any grammatical form in all supported applications. Russian Grammar Handbook is an easy-to-use reference guide to Russian grammar. It contains the explanations of basic orthographic rules, usage examples, training and self-checking tests. ORFO 9.0 has been designed specially for Office 2007 and Windows Vista. It also supports up-to-date versions of popular browsers such as IE, Firefox and Opera.

ORFO linguistic technologies are used by Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP/2003/2007 as Proofing Tools for Russian. ORFO considerably enlarges Microsoft Office possibilities while editing texts in Russian and the other aforesaid languages. It also allows to perform the spelling-check in many applications which are not provided by its own proofing tools.

Applications supported by ORFO
*MS Word 97/2000/XP/2003/2007
*MS Access 97/2000/XP/2003/2007
*MS Excel 97/2000/XP/2003/2007
*MS PowerPoint 97/2000/XP/2003/2007
*MS FrontPage 2000/XP/2003
*MS InfoPath 2003/2007
*MS Outlook 97-98/2000/XP/2003/2007
*MS Outlook Express 4.x/5.x/6.x
*MS Publisher 98/2000
*MS Publisher XP/2003/2007
*MS Works 4.x
*MS Internet Explorer 6.x
*Opera 9.x
*Mozilla FireFox 2.x
*Adobe PageMaker 6.x/7.0
*Lotus WordPro 96/97/2000
*Corel WordPerfect 7.0/8.0
*Corel WordPerfect 9.0
*QuarkXPress 4.x/5.x

What’s new in Orfo 9.0 compared to Orfo 2004?
*Improved spelling checker (lower or upper case, writing with a hyphen, words with apostrophe)
*Improved grammar checker, in particular adjectives and nouns agreement
*MS Office 2007 applications support
*Spelling check in browsers
*A quicker algorithm of getting suggestions
*A set of Russian dictionaries called Russian Collection has been enlarged. At the moment Russian Collection includes: Russian Heritage, Russian Dictionary by Dahl, Synonyms, Antonyms, Paronyms, Etymological Dictionary
*User-friendly interface and Fast type support in Russian Collection
*Convenient calling from Windows Taskbar. You can now call ORFO 9.0 Setup, ORFO Editor, Russian Grammar Handbook and Russian Collection from ORFO Agent context menu
*Training and self-checking tests in Russian Grammar Handbook
*User dictionary in Unicode support
*Support of more than one user dictionary for the Grammar Module and Find and Replace All Word Forms Commands
*New up-to-date design