Nikkud on QT will get fixed in the next version

2005-01-20 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, While currently no longer a list member, I am sending you this bessorah tovah: The annoying OOo nikud bug exists also in QT based apps, even as they are not dependent on each other AFAIK. After some bug reporting here http://bugs.kde.org/process_bug.cgi , I sent a bug report to Trolltech,

Re: Genius Videocam Express

2003-12-29 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 29 December 2003 15:16, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Since no-one answered my original question, I'll ask another. Can anyone recommend a CHEAP (no more than 100 shekels) Webcam that works in LINUX? Don't know what the price is in Israel, but I am using a cheap webcam, the Logitech quickcam

[OT] Handhelds question

2003-12-17 Thread Arie Folger
Are there any handhelds that use unicode? Does the Sharp Zaurus support Hebrew? How is the sincynk of the Sharp Zaurii with Linux (I remember reading that there were issues with it). Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give

Re: Document managment and workflow

2003-12-17 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 14:39, Yishay Mor wrote: CVS would be nice if I could get people to use normal editors with normal formats (read *ML) Mainly for myself, and some startups I work with. I didn't follow the entire discussion, so forgive me if this software has already been ruled

Re: problem with kde's font handling

2003-12-07 Thread Arie Folger
I installed a new user account on my box to see if my personal settings are causing KDE not to print TT fonts such as Times New Roman, and it didn't help. I can, however, print with non TT fonts such as Bitstream's serif font (called Times?). Anyway, so I tried to uninstall one problematic

Re: document organization system

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 05 December 2003 10:51, Aaron wrote: Hmm, just what I need for my projects, did you try the download?? Is it at all usable?? Aaron No, I never did. I was waiting for it to become more mature. Arie -- If an important person, out of humility, does not want to rely on [the Law, as

Re: document organization system

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 05 December 2003 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a couple of days ago Magnolia 1.0 was announced. It's still not there, but they list WebDAV first in their roadmap. (which was just what I would look at to get what you want) http://www.obinary.com/en/magnolia.html Magnolia is

Re: document organization system

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:47, Gad wrote: Isn't that the same idea as WinFS (planned for the next big version of Windows) and GNUFS? GNUwhat? I googled and got nothing useful. Could you enlighten us, please? Arie -- If an important person, out of humility, does not want to rely on [the

Re: problem with kde's font handling

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:38, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: OpenOffice uses a rather independent fonts configuration. What about gtk2 programs? What about abiword (uses Xft, but independently of of gtk)? gnumeric? Abiword is OK, perfect with both Hebrew and English, although it doesn't handle

Re: document organization system

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
an alternative to the current way of storing things in a hierarchical directory system. IOW, you could use Zope to implement this idea, but is it being done in the same way as newdocms? (then again, I am not sure that I described Zope properly) Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give

document organization system

2003-12-05 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I returned to a site that once impressed me, only to find out development stopped (http://m-arriaga.net/software/newdocms/). I wonder if other people are working on similar project. Googling and searching freshmeat did not turn up productive results. Anybody can provide further pointers to

problem with kde's font handling

2003-12-05 Thread Arie Folger
. OOo may use its own, ghostscript-independent system for generating the PDFs, which is why those are not affected. Thanks for any help, Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like

Re: IGLU FAQ and Hebrew keyboard layouts

2003-12-01 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 30 November 2003 18:40, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: As of XFree 4.3 the Xkb can mix-and-match Groups. Up until 4.2.1 the il layout had to assume the the Israeli group will be the second group and that the first group will be US-English (see the xkb/symbols/il of XFree 4.1.0 - 4.2.1 as to

Re: IGLU FAQ and Hebrew keyboard layouts

2003-11-30 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 30 November 2003 10:12, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What do you mean by 4 layouts? 4 variants. I assume that the difference is in the layout of certain non Alephbetic keys. As you use Fedora Core 1, you use XFree 4.3. Therefore you can easily use one of the two variants of the il layout.

IGLU FAQ and Hebrew keyboard layouts

2003-11-28 Thread Arie Folger
as to what the difference between them is. In particular, I have no idea how to get niqud under Linux (I rarely use it, when I do, I am forced to use the insert character kind of options of either KDE or OOo). Thanks for the good work, FAQ authors, Arie Folger -- If an important person, out

fedora core 1 - openoffice 1.1.0-6 Hebrew

2003-11-27 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I just upgraded from RH9 to Fedora Core 1 (FC1?) and whereas my experience has been wonderful so far, I found the following two issues: * LPRng disappeared, replaced by CUPS. OK, I don't mind CUPS, except that it didn't support my printer until I found out the following: My printer, an HP

Re: fedora core 1 - openoffice 1.1.0-6 Hebrew

2003-11-27 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 27 November 2003 18:33, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Arie Folger wrote: * worse than the above is that the supplied version of OOo, 1.1.0-6, doesn't seem to do Hebrew. I tested with the installed-from-tarball 1.1.0, and the latter still works 100%, Hebrew and all, but not so the one

SOLVED: fedora core 1 - openoffice 1.1.0-6 Hebrew

2003-11-27 Thread Arie Folger
I deleted all traces of my openoffice installation as far as my homedir goes, and ran setup from the rpm installed version, and lo and behold, everything is all right now. Hebrew works, German works (including umlauts, i.e. , and regardless of locale setting, which was an issue in 1.1.0-RC3).

Re: Mixed hebrew english table of contents and index in latex

2003-11-18 Thread Arie Folger
This sounds suspiciously like a bug I found lately in LyX and emailed to Dekel Tsur IIRC. He will be working on it, but was a bit busy lately, so it could take a few weeks. I would email him your file, so that he can see another example of the problem. Mine was with Hebrew quotes. You could

Re: xterm and hebrew

2003-11-18 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:13, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: You can use mlterm, xiterm (xterm with Sun's i18n code), konsole or gnome-terminal if you want bidi support. Konsole has bidi support? that's new to me. I always need to see my konsole Hebrew text backwards. = Teminal output

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Arie Folger
are? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics

OOo and niqud

2003-10-29 Thread Arie Folger
I use OOo 1.1rc3. It is great, except niqud is out, and I can't paste Hebrew from KDE apps. Any idea if or when these issues have been/will be fixed? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he

SOLVED: OOo with Hebrew and accented characters

2003-10-28 Thread Arie Folger
-8, I now use en_US without specifying the character set, and voil, the accented characters can be typed in from a KDE-configured keyboard. Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already

Re: AOL doesn't accept mail - free relaying of email

2003-10-21 Thread Arie Folger
So what is it I should do? And who is blacklisted, I or my ISP? (I am, as I stated earlier, on a private IP from an ADSL router - that does have a public IP - connected to an ISP. My box is a plain vanilla RH9.) Arie Folger On Tuesday 21 October 2003 03:59, Boris Ratner wrote: I happen

Re: extracting text from a pdf.

2003-10-16 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:57, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:25:27AM +0200, Arie Folger wrote: How can I extract text from a pdf not using Adobe Acrobat Reader? And if the file is password protected? You can use xpdf or pdftotext. I couldn't find such an option

extracting text from a pdf.

2003-10-15 Thread Arie Folger
How can I extract text from a pdf not using Adobe Acrobat Reader? And if the file is password protected? Arie -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a

Re: linux support for following webcams

2003-10-09 Thread Arie Folger
wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:45, Arie Folger wrote: are the following webcams supported under linux? Note that I googled but found nothing on these models: * Logitech QuickCam Express USB W32 * Labtec Webcam USB I have no idea

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Arie Folger
Is it possible to set paragraph direction when in a non Hebrew locale? (i.e., when in LOCALE en_US, even when I force OOwriter to display the paragraph direction button, it is grayed out. When I start OO in a Hebrew locale, it defaults all paragraphs to RTL, which is not what I want.) Arie --

linux support for following webcams

2003-10-05 Thread Arie Folger
are the following webcams supported under linux? Note that I googled but found nothing on these models: * Logitech QuickCam Express USB W32 * Labtec Webcam USB I have no idea what kind of chipsets are in there, and do not have the option of trying before I buy. Thanks for the tips, Arie --

OpenOffice 1.1 in Hebrew locale shows everything right to left

2003-09-22 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I just installed OO 1.1 besides my existing 1.0, and to my horror, documents created in 1.0 show up a bit differently in 1.1 (bad for documents where graphic layout is important, such as Impress or Draw documenst with lots of text boxes). Even worse, all the paragraphs are right to left,

why are some pdfs by OOo not readable by adobe acrobat?

2003-08-24 Thread Arie Folger
I produced a landscape document with OOo Draw, and although gv will display the document, kghostview and acroread won't. A pdf that non Linuxers can't read kind of defeats the purpose of creating the pdf in the first place, does it?;-) Why is that pdf considered corrupted by acroread and

Re: konqueror not embedding pdf reader

2003-08-18 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 17 August 2003 20:27, Oded Arbel wrote: Oh, mistakingly I thought you were using kghostview. I don't know if kpdf is embedable at all (me thinks its not). Sorry, my mistake. I am using kghostview. This is what happens when clicking to often rather than using the CLI :-( Arie -- It

Re: konqueror not embedding pdf reader

2003-08-17 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 15 August 2003 12:52, Oded Arbel wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 12:09, Arie Folger wrote: I am using KDE 3.1.3, and I noticed that when clicking on a hyperlink to a pdf document, (a) konqueror does not embed the document, but spawns a regular copy of kpdf, and (b) lately, even

konqueror not embedding pdf reader

2003-08-15 Thread Arie Folger
, especially for (b)? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics

Re: SOLVED (part 2): problems with printing system

2003-07-31 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 00:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:06:38PM +0200, Arie Folger wrote: Now I still 'd like to figure out why went wrong with the updated glibc (glibc-2.3.2-27.9) that trashed my system, leading to the whole mess in the first place. Where

problems with printing system

2003-07-28 Thread Arie Folger
Yesterday, I reinstalled my RH9.0 from scratch (because the old setup went kaput when I installed an updated glibc ... go figure. Caused segmentation faults and nothing worked afterwards, and even with rescue disk, nothing could seemingly be done to get it going again. The RPM database had been

SOLVED (partly): problems with printing system

2003-07-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 28 July 2003 09:52, Arie Folger wrote: Yesterday, I reinstalled my RH9.0 from scratch (because the old setup went kaput when I installed an updated glibc ... go figure. Caused segmentation faults and nothing worked afterwards, and even with rescue disk, nothing could seemingly

Re: SOLVED (part 2): problems with printing system

2003-07-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 28 July 2003 21:44, Arie Folger wrote: First, LPRng is on the system, and won't go away, even though I have cups: [EMAIL PROTECTED] afolger]# rpm -e LPRng failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory error: %preun(LPRng-3.8.19-3.1) scriptlet failed, exit status 2

system wide settings on KDE

2003-06-26 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I have a problem with kjots. It automatically becomes wider than the screen, and refuses to be resized. I found out that there is a setting in the kjots config file that specifies the width, and changed it ... to no avail. as soon as I restart kjots, the new value is replaced with the old

Other Truetype fonts in RH9

2003-06-24 Thread Arie Folger
I just upgraded to RH9, and although xfontsel will see my other, locally installed TT fonts, mainly MS webfonts, qt and kde will have none of it. How come? Arie -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he

Re: Other Truetype fonts in RH9

2003-06-24 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 14:51, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Add those fonts to your fontconfig. Take a look at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf . See how existing directories are configured, and add. Though you should generqally change only /etc/fonts/local.conf Thanks. It worked, but I do wonder why ussuch a

AOL doesn't accept mail - free relaying of email

2003-06-12 Thread Arie Folger
right to conclude that this complaint of AOL's is directed towards my ISP? Or is it towards the ADSL router of ours? Also, I mailed them a complaint letter why they shouldn't maintain such a policy, but they didn't even bother to reply. Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account

software for designing/managing forms with sql backend

2003-03-31 Thread Arie Folger
I am looking for an easy way (similar to MSAccess) to create forms for mysql databases, and then to implement those forms. Same for reports. HTML/PHP/CGI is acceptable but not ideal, since I would like a slick printing engine. MySQL control center does not qualify because it is an

Re: Hebrew printing from KWord

2003-03-26 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote: For the rest of us, this is what I did to solve the problem: Run the kcontrol, and go to Font Installer (it's under System Administration). Switch to administrator mode. On settings, Check (under AFMs) Generate with, and select

Re: Hebrew printing from KWord

2003-03-24 Thread Arie Folger
17:43, Arie Folger wrote: This came up a few times, but there seem to be two kinds of kword users on list, those who managed to make Hebrew print and those who didn't. I have enabled font embedding with qtconfig. I installed ms-webfonts Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman and Tahoma. I

Re: Palm+Outlook compatible PIM

2003-03-12 Thread Arie Folger
Ok, I got evolution working again, and like some of its features while I bemoan the lack of unicode support. I will test it later today. Back to korganizer: I tried to import into outlook both a vcalendar and an icalender file exported by korganizer, and neither was accepted. Any clue why?

Palm+Outlook compatible PIM

2003-03-11 Thread Arie Folger
I am trying to cooperate with other fellows in this office. However, being the only Linux user, I haven't found yet a satisfying manner to share my calendar with the secretary, who uses Windows. I am using Korganizer, but will have no compunctions switching to evolution, if, by listmembers'

Re: Palm+Outlook compatible PIM

2003-03-11 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 13:04, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: kroupware will enable you to share the calendar, meeting bla bla. Yes, but what will I do until they produce something useable. Is there a temporary fix? I tried saving to vcal and emailing the file, but outlook on the other machine choked

Re: Palm+Outlook compatible PIM

2003-03-11 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 14:36, Aviram Jenik wrote: I was under the impression that you searched for a server-side solution; but if you're simply looking for a mail client that can send and receive appointment requests/responses from Outlook, evolution will do it quite seamlessly. However, it

Re: Hebrew *.doc and e-mail experiment

2003-02-04 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 11:29, shlomo solomon wrote: I received an attachment containig a Hebrew Word .doc file. Since I had to read it, I tried an experiment and it worked. Here's what I did. I first opened the file with OpenOffice. This is **not** the Hebrew version being developed, but

latin keyboard layout - REPOSTED

2003-01-28 Thread Arie Folger
that the left win key is a modifier. How do I change that key into a non modifier key? Thanks, Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than

latin keyboard layout - (now with my correct email address for iglu)

2002-12-24 Thread Arie Folger
that the left win key is a modifier. How do I change that key into a non modifier key? Thanks, Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable

video file formats kino

2002-12-21 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I have been experimenting with kino a bit, and noticed that some of the supposedly available mpeg export formats (DivX, generic MPEG2 and possibly more) are not available. I assume I am missing some libraries, but do not have the slightest clue asto which ones. The manual doesn't say

Re: strange file permission problem

2002-12-19 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 19 December 2002 11:19, shlomo solomon wrote: I have a strange problem. Actually, I've solved it, but I don't like the solution and I don't like not knowing what's causing it. So maybe someone can help. snip The problem is that every so often (I don't know when it happens), the

Where did my dv device go?

2002-12-09 Thread Arie Folger
it complain using some error message? Ergo, it theoretically works, but something is wrong. Help. BTW, I alreadyt tried fiddling with the cables. I am now using RH8.0. Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything

Re: SOLUTION: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-12-05 Thread Arie Folger
I wrote: I did not try reinstalling RH7.3, but got it right anyway, although only with mplayer. Well, this is incorrect. This is what happens when you leave a message a little too long in the drafts folder. I did install a RedHat 7.3 partition, which was important in discovering what software

SOLUTION: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-12-04 Thread Arie Folger
) from a RH7.3 partition to your RH8.0 system. Note: the problem has been diagnosed on Gentoo as well, so it is not a RH only issue. Thank Chris Frey for the solution. Arie Folger = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: External USB cd writers for Linux

2002-12-03 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 03 December 2002 14:41, Mark Veltzer wrote: Can anybody recommend any that are known to work well under Linux ? I used somebody else's PlexWriter USB CD writer, and it worked out of the box using RH 7.3 and RH 8.0 (it's a 4x drive). I may have gotten the full name wrong, but it's

fetchmailconf

2002-12-01 Thread Arie Folger
connection goes up. The settings are to be found in each user's .fetchmailrc. Arie Folger -- Happy user of fetchmail = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command

netscape plugins in Mozilla

2002-12-01 Thread Arie Folger
is the difference between flash and shockwave? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristotle's

Re: Writing Mixed Hebrew/English Documents on Linux

2002-11-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 28 November 2002 10:18, Shlomi Fish wrote: What I need is: 1. Ability to convert to logical HTML (very important). 2. Ability to produce PDF (not necessarily the best PDF) 3. Ability to be inputted into Word somehow (I guess it can input any HTML document that is valid enough).

Re: Writing Mixed Hebrew/English Documents on Linux

2002-11-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 28 November 2002 11:58, voguemaster wrote: Have you tried LyX with the Heb-LaTeX and the necessary KB bindings etc.. ?? It can export to pdf and html, although I'm not sure how well the html would look in different browsers (I haven't tried it yet). See my post you should have

Re: Writing Mixed Hebrew/English Documents on Linux

2002-11-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 28 November 2002 18:31, voguemaster wrote: Another thing is, is it possible to do double-column documents (such as in many academic papers) ?? I'm assuming it can, but I haven't found anything on this in the user guide. You can. IIRC you need to click on Layout-Document or Paragraph

Re: mozilla only sets utf-8 automatically on static html

2002-11-27 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:54, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: You should look for HTTP headers, as those override the headers set in the file. Try, e.g. 'wget --server-resposne --O /dev/null http://server/page' Thanks. The header shows that the charset set in the header is indeed iso-8859-1 even

Re: OpenWebMail Hebrew

2002-11-26 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 25 November 2002 09:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. What is the official name of the Logical hebrew encoding? Windows 1255 or ISO8859-8-i? ISO-8859-8-I. But a software package should be able to recognize WINDOWS-1255 as Hebrew as well

mozilla only sets utf-8 automatically on static html

2002-11-26 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I am puzzled. I am using the latest RH stable mozilla (1.0.1-26), and noticed that dynamic (php) pages that are encoded in utf-8 (including the correct meta tag) are recognized as such by konqueror, but not by mozilla. However, if I save the page, and then view it with mozilla, the thing

Re: mozilla only sets utf-8 automatically on static html

2002-11-26 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 11:45, Dvir Volk wrote: Maybe it has something to do with how this section of php.ini is configured in your case? ; As of 4.0b4, PHP always outputs a character encoding by default in ; the Content-type: header. To disable sending of the charset, simply ; set it

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-22 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 22 November 2002 08:40, Lars Knoll wrote: KDE would really benefit from some developers speaking arabic and/or hebrew. I'm trying to ensure things are working for right to left languages, but I've got enough to do to ensure Qt and khtml/konqueror is working as it should. Well, to

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-21 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:50, Martin Polley wrote: It does #2 and #5 as well. Just enabling font embedding is not enough--you have to make the Hebrew fonts available to GhostScript. Why not, ghostscript has no problem printing Hebrew coming from konqueror or lyx, after all? Arie

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-21 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 21 November 2002 09:53, Martin Polley wrote: It depends on the font. If it is a font that is already available to X apps AND to gs, no problem. If it is available to X and NOT to gs, then you need to make it available to gs. Arie Folger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Why

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-21 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 21 November 2002 03:32, you wrote: Should I forward this to some kde developer? (Lars ... what's his email?) He's actually on this list ;-) snip Comments to some of your points (I have no idea about the others): 1* can produce ps 2* ps has embedded fonts Both should work. I

Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-20 Thread Arie Folger
setting my eyes on the soon to be mainstreamed bidi implementation of openoffice... (any news on that front?) Should I forward this to some kde developer? (Lars ... what's his email?) Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-20 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 12:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Arie Folger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * html does not contain dir=rtl tags, an issue when a paragraph starts with certain sequences, such as 1., which should be displayed as .1, for rudimentary numbered lists, also, otherwise

Re: php question

2002-11-19 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, a little test - which I told Arye to do, but decided to do myself: I wrote a small CGI: snip So it is definitely *not* PHP which sends out the HTML entities, but Mozilla itself - as you can see, the cgi itself is pure bash. Now,

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-19 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:05, Shachar Shemesh wrote: 4. I have asked in the past for help, and indicated quite clearly that even telling me I use this application on Windows, and it uses Hebrew is considered help, as it focuses my work. So far, the only one to come forward and offer an

Re: php question

2002-11-19 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 14:33, Andre E. Bar'yudin wrote: The reason is, that in my opinion utf8 is not a legal codepage name (at least for Mozilla, although Java eats it as an alias to UTF-8, as far as I remember). Probably Konqueror does support this name too. So, maybe the original

Re: php question

2002-11-17 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 17 November 2002 03:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Arie Folger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I modified phpnuke to allo utf8, and started filling the site with content (although for now the search function has been disabled because I expect it not to do Hebrew yet). Then, after

Re: php question

2002-11-17 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 17 November 2002 13:46, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:12:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has your input come from Mozilla? It does that. To make sure, write a cgi script (if you don't trust PHP) that displays its input as text/plain, and create a form in

php question

2002-11-16 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I modified phpnuke to allo utf8, and started filling the site with content (although for now the search function has been disabled because I expect it not to do Hebrew yet). Then, after viewing a Hebrew article as html source, I noticed that instead of unicode chararacters I got numbered

converting from/to LyX/LaTeX to kword

2002-11-14 Thread Arie Folger
). Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-09 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 08 November 2002 18:51, guy keren wrote: mplayer has an option that specifies how it will send images (the '-vo' option). you can run it and tell it to use something other then 'xv', and see if the problem goes away. I tried that at first. BTW, mplayer is the only one that had a

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-08 Thread Arie Folger
OK, after having decided that RH8.0's xv extensions are the probable source of trouble, I moved my /usr/local partition's content to /usr/local on the /usr partition, and installed a barebones RH7.3 on the freed partition (1GB). Xine now plays the dvds beautifully. Of course, dual booting is

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-08 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 08 November 2002 11:05, you wrote (off list): hmm, i never tried rh8, i never use .0 products (too buggy). do you really have to use RedHat ? Use Gentoo, mplayer works beautiful. Flamer ;-). Seriously, though, I'd love to try Gentoo, but I am no longer on a T1, just dial up (hope I

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
I can now confirm that the dvd playing softwares are the troublemakers; I just popped in another disc, and the results are the same: instead of a normal image, I see a split screen with two copies of the same half image. I will try to install a minimal RH7.3 on a spare partition (well, the

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 12:26, Arie Folger wrote: I can now confirm that the dvd playing softwares are the troublemakers; I just popped in another disc, and the results are the same: instead of a normal image, I see a split screen with two copies of the same half image. I will try

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
supported by selected vo vd! Video attribute 'hue' isn't supported by selected vo vd! Audio: no sound!!! Start playing... V: 0.8 15 0% 0% 0.0% 0 0 0% ++ END OF ERROR MESSAGE Your help in fixing my xv video output is hereby appreciated, Arie Folger

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 16:26, Oleg Kobets wrote: Check permissions on /dev/dsp for no sound problem. That is a misleading error message. Since the selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec, there is no stream, and thus no sound. I thought this would be obvious, sorry.

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 16:26, Oleg Kobets wrote: Other then that, what graphics card do you use ? If it's ATI like me, compile XVidix and it will work superbly, or use good nvidia drivers which supposely work too with xv. Now it dawns on me, xvidix is for ati cards only, not for my

Re: Laptop screen is blanking out

2002-11-05 Thread Arie Folger
Low tech solution: did you try to fiddle with the switch in the lid that switches the screen on and off when opening and closing the lid? works for me when apm messes up a little, both under X and in console. Arie Folger

SOLUTION Re: resizing /

2002-11-05 Thread Arie Folger
I ended up finding some spare place to store an interim / partition, modified /etc/fstab to allow booting in that partition and mounting of the original / in /mnt/spare. Thing to watch out for: since grub looks for its config file on the original /, one should really carry out the entire

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-10-31 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 31 October 2002 03:43, Martin Polley wrote: I've heard good things about Xine, too. (The pronunciation doesn't sound good in Hebrew though...) Since I posted, I tried Xine as well, and same result. I am gonna look for a neighbour to test the physical media. I tried downloading

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-10-31 Thread Arie Folger
- Original Message - From: Martin Polley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arie Folger [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Oleg Kobets [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:03 PM Subject: RE: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen You can get mplayer RPMs (none

Re: increasing the keyboard's responsiveness

2002-10-30 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:02, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: xset r rate in X. e.g. xset r rate 250 30 is my preferred setting (repeat delay 250, repeat rate 30). This sets the autorepeat rate. But does this influence the delay between different keystrokes? When I use the arrow keys to get

dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-10-30 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I installed ogle and videolan client, and both suffer from the same illnes: I see only half the image, and that half is kind of displayed twice. I am using RH8.0, and the following relevant packages are installed: aalib-1.4rc4-fr2.1 alsa-lib-0.9.0rc3 libdvdcss-1.2.3-fr1

Re: increasing the keyboard's responsiveness

2002-10-29 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 00:42, guy keren wrote: what kind of hardware do you run this KDE on? myself, i use an AMD k6-2 with 256MB of RAM, and since KDE 2.X and beyond runs to slow, i switched to gnome 1.2 (RH 7.3). KDE became too bloated to run on this hardware. [please don't start flaming

increasing the keyboard's responsiveness

2002-10-28 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, When typing in kde apps, I feel that typing has definitely become more sluggish lately (as opposed to earlier versions). Does this mean that it's time to upgrade (need a new job, first) or is this tweakable? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man

resizing /

2002-10-27 Thread Arie Folger
instructions on this one? I am using a RH8.0 on a amd k2-550, and my drive is (from dmesg): hda: FUJITSU MHK2120AT, ATA DISK drive hda: 23579136 sectors (12073 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1467/255/63, UDMA(33) Thanks, Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who

Re: redhat did it again - no howtos on iso images

2002-10-27 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 27 October 2002 13:03, Eliran wrote: I also didn't see it in RH7.2 (The Doc. CD was preety empty...) Which is why the subject line reads redhat did it *again*. The last howto rpm was in 7.2. 7.3 had none. Arie -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who

Re: redhat did it again - no howtos on iso images

2002-10-27 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 27 October 2002 12:50, Sagi Bashari wrote: On 27/10/2002 17:49, Arie Folger wrote: Did anybody else notice how HOWTOs have been effectively considered deprecated by RedHat? Any rpm anywhere available that sports a recent collection of HOWTOs? (yeah, yeah, I know, I can just

Re: kpilot doesn't sync properly over usb

2002-10-26 Thread Arie Folger
Correction: I wrote: In the mean time, all other users can use jpilot, although I am not thrilled having no conduits to kde apps. I am wrong, jpilot doesn't do usb either. I guess one will have to stick to the command line pilot-link suite. Cheers, Arie -- It is absurd to seek to give an

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