Re: בדיקת הגופן הערבי של אובונטו

2015-09-24 חוט Dov Grobgeld
I think they are making a mistake showing it as a pdf file, as the font rendering mechanism is not necessarily the same as on the desktop (which typically uses HarfBuzz). They also have some path discontinuites w.r.t. to shaping, but perhaps that is just an artifact due to pdf. In any case, as I

Re: Videos of AP2015 (was Re: A question about systemd documentation)

2015-08-09 חוט Dov Grobgeld
Where should we (presenters) upload the screen recorded sessions? My ogv file is about 100M. Regards, Dov On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Shai Berger s...@platonix.com wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2015 10:50:11 Ira Abramov wrote: And sadly I missed the whole thing due to a car breakdown. are

Re: open source program idea

2012-05-15 חוט Dov Grobgeld
Answering my own question, you can get contour data from: http://downloads.cloudmade.com/asia/western_asia/israel#downloads_breadcrumbs But whether those borders are to your political liking is a matter of taste. Regards, Dov 2012/5/15 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com I downloaded

Re: open source program idea

2012-05-15 חוט Dov Grobgeld
address for bug reports? Regards, Dov 2012/5/15 Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il You can get administrative boundaries (at three levels) for all countries here: http://www.gadm.org/country The adm0 is the country border. On 15/05/2012 08:50, Dov Grobgeld wrote: I downloaded the data

Re: open source program idea

2012-05-14 חוט Dov Grobgeld
I downloaded the data and played with plotting of the routes. I wonder is if someone has a list of the geocoordinates of the borders of Israel? I would like to overlay the routes on this background. Of course I could try to extract this from or use OpenStreetmap for the background image, but this

Re: fossil scm

2012-04-25 חוט Dov Grobgeld
I got my workplace to switch from subversion to git about a year ago. Most developers (everyone but me actually :-) work under Windows. We've found GitExtensions to be more than sufficient as a GUI under Windows. A few people have used tortoise git as well. The fact that GitExtensions is run

Re: Siddur for N900

2012-01-28 חוט Dov Grobgeld
and substitution logics from it. That is my goal with the automatic nikkud insertion, to be able to bless (like perl ;-) a Hebrew font with full Diacritics logics. Shavua tov! Dov On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 19:09, Lior Kaplan kaplanl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Dov Grobgeld

Re: Siddur for N900

2012-01-28 חוט Dov Grobgeld
is pretty much GPL compatible, I think: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=EzraSIL_Home On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 19:42, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks. I have in the last few days returned to hacking on my automatic Nikkud opentype anchor inserter program

Re: Siddur for N900

2012-01-25 חוט Dov Grobgeld
of Culmus these days? And yes, of course it runs on a normal Linux box. All the maemo specific stuff is protected in in try/except on the Python. All you need is Python/Gtk. Regards, Dov On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:52, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012, Dov

Siddur for N900

2012-01-24 חוט Dov Grobgeld
I have just uploaded to github a first version of my Siddur application for the Nokia N900 in python/gtk. It is far from finished and I will be happy to receive contributions. Thanks to gtk and culmus the Hebrew looks very aesthetic:

August Penguin T-Shirts

2011-04-20 חוט Dov Grobgeld
If you already start talking about August Penguin, I would like to mention something that bothered me with last years event. I really liked the T-Shirt and was looking forward to wearing it to work and just for general free advertisement of free software and for associating myself as a member of

Re: לוגו לציון מיליון בעברית

2010-11-03 חוט Dov Grobgeld
להבדיל מהרבה שפות אחרות לעברית ישל את היתרון שיש קשר חזק בין הכתב והשפה. יש כ-4 שפות שניתן לכתוב עם אותיות עבריות להבדיל מכ-7 שפות באותיות ערביות וכ-70 שפות באותיות לטניות. לכן הסמל ע או כמאט כל אות עברי אחר מסמל בצורה חזקה עברית. דב

Re: לוגו לציון מיליון בעברית

2010-11-03 חוט Dov Grobgeld
: - http://www.omniglot.com/writing/hebrew.htm - http://www.omniglot.com/writing/arabic.htm אז באמת צדקת לגבי אלף-בית הערבית. דב 2010/11/3 Shachar Shemesh s...@hamakor.org.il On 03/11/10 08:50, Dov Grobgeld wrote: להבדיל מהרבה שפות אחרות לעברית ישל את היתרון שיש קשר חזק בין הכתב והשפה. יש

Re: בקשת עזרה לגבי הודעה לעיתו נות בנושא פונטים חדשים של קולמוס

2010-10-20 חוט Dov Grobgeld
לא נראה לי הניסוח שהפונטים קשורים ללינוקס. הפונטים בפורמת TrueType/OpenType ואין שום דבר שהופך אותם ליותר מתאימים ללינוקס. דב 2010/10/20 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il העלתי טיוטה ראשונה של הודעה לעיתונות לוויקי:

Re: בקשת עזרה לגבי הודעה לעיתו נות בנושא פונטים חדשים של קולמוס

2010-10-20 חוט Dov Grobgeld
אכן הפטנטים פגו, אבל עדיין מישהוא צריך ליצור את פקודות ה-True Type Instructions לתוך הפונט כדי שהמנוע יכול להשתמש בהם. הפקודות האלו הם מיני מכונת מצבים ושפת מחשב, וגם אם מותר לפנח את השפה בלי לשלם תמלוגים, מישהו צריך לכתוב את התוכנה. אני לא יודע אם FontForge תומך בהם. דב 2010/10/20 Shachar

One more Windows only application entering the education system

2010-10-10 חוט Dov Grobgeld
Hello, In my son's school they have started using a new system called mashov, that is used for the teachers to enter feedback on the progress of the students. The system is also used for the school to give feedback to parents, and at the last parent's meeting we got instructions of how to access

Re: Looking for advice from someone who knows both Mercurial (hg) andGit

2010-09-21 חוט Dov Grobgeld
Regarding the difference between git and mercurial, there was an interview with one of the Mercurial main developers at Floss Weekly recently, see: http://twit.tv/floss122 Basically from what I snatched up about the differences, git is more low level and may be described as an infrastructure on

Re: Looking for advice from someone who knows both Mercurial (hg)andGit

2010-09-21 חוט Dov Grobgeld
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:18, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 10:01 +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Regarding the difference between git and mercurial, there was an interview with one of the Mercurial main developers at Floss Weekly recently, see: http://twit.tv/floss122

Re: Looking for advice from someone who knows both Mercurial (hg) andGit

2010-09-21 חוט Dov Grobgeld
the casual user. Dov On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2010 10:43:00 Dov Grobgeld wrote: I have used both svn and git extensively and the more I use git, the more I understand (though I still think he exaggerated) what Linus Torvalds meant

Re: כתבה על קוד פתוח ומשרד החי נוך

2010-08-23 חוט Dov Grobgeld
Just a note about matlab vs opensource. Imho, a valid open source replacement for Matlab isn't Octave or scilab that try to copy the problematic matlab syntax. After a year of heavy python use I believe that the best replacement is Numerical Python and Scientific Python ( http://www.scipy.org/),

Re: כתבה על קוד פתוח ומשרד החי נוך

2010-08-23 חוט Dov Grobgeld
be cutting away the user from a universe of plug-ins, community macros and public support, guides and books. 2010/8/23 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com Just a note about matlab vs opensource. Imho, a valid open source replacement for Matlab isn't Octave or scilab

Re: פריסת מקלדת למתרגמים ועבר ית מנוקדת

2010-08-16 חוט Dov Grobgeld
למקלדת ולאיש קוראים /‎/dvɔræk. אתה מתבלבל בין המלחין והפסיכולוג. לגבי איוט השם דברוק, ראה: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dvorak (אבל היה לי חבר שקרה למקלדת שלי Dov-rak)... דב 2010/8/16 Ira Abramov hama...@ira.abramov.org במילים אחרות, יש אנשים פסיכיים :-) לגבי קולמאק - מעניין, לא

Re: HaAretz Article about Open Knesset, August Penguin and HaMakor

2010-08-11 חוט Dov Grobgeld
Nice, but someone should educate the the author of the article of the difference between free software licenses and public domain. Please write the list if you take the bait so that not all list members will send him the correction. :-) Dov On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:53, Gabor Szabo

Re: Leumi-Card new site

2010-02-18 חוט Dov Grobgeld
Great. Hopefully this also includes the standardized authentication when you make a transaction, something that I have had a lot of problems with in the past with various sites. (That they should create one time VISA credentials that are good for a single transaction is an issue that has nothing