LINGUA

Multilingual writing and scholarly language support for Nota Bene Workstation

Lingua expands Nota Bene with advanced support for Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, IPA, and many additional scholarly writing systems. It enables accurate multilingual composition, right-to-left text handling, contextual letter forms, and sophisticated diacritic placement.

Write across languages with precision

Lingua supports Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, and an extensive range of Roman characters, including the International Phonetic Alphabet and many characters used in African languages. More than 1,700 characters and over 230 accents can be entered and combined in virtually any way.

It also supports right-to-left writing, automatic contextual letter forms, precise vowel and accent placement, and multilingual documents that combine scripts and reading directions smoothly.

Supported Languages

Why scholars use Lingua

Built for multilingual research, accurate rendering, and complex scholarly workflows.

Multilingual Writing

Write in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, and more in a single document — even on the same line.

Right-to-Left Support

Work naturally in Hebrew and Arabic with correct alignment, wrapping, and bidirectional text handling.

Advanced Diacritics

Place accents, vowels, breathing marks, cantillations, and modifiers accurately and automatically.

Scholarly Output

Produce camera-ready copy and export multilingual text to other programs with Unicode support.

Detailed Features

Lingua includes extensive tools for multilingual entry, rendering, searching, export, and scholarly text production.

Language Support

  • Full language system, not just font changes
  • Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, and extended Roman alphabets
  • Optional support for Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac, and Coptic
  • Multiple foreign keyboards available

Input and Composition

  • Instantly switch between alphabets / languages
  • Pop-up compose key for accents and modifiers
  • Stack multiple diacritics above or below characters
  • Visual keyboard layout display as you type

Rendering and Precision

  • Automatic accent placement
  • Sophisticated font rendering
  • Accurate placement of Hebrew vowels and cantillations
  • Contextual forms handled automatically

Bidirectional Text

  • Full right-to-left support
  • Mix languages of different directionality on the same line
  • Insert characters at the meeting point of left-to-right and right-to-left text
  • Paragraph-by-paragraph orientation control

Search and Editing

  • Multilingual case conversion
  • Multilingual entry, sorting, and searching
  • Ability to override automatic contextualization
  • Display or hide Hebrew vowels and cantillations

Export and Compatibility

  • Print in a wide size range
  • Import from major research programs
  • RTF export enhancements
  • Unicode output support

See Lingua in Action

Explore how Lingua makes multilingual scholarly writing faster, more accurate, and easier to manage inside Nota Bene Workstation.

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