2008/12/10 Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Also, I don't know about the Technion, but when I worked in tau (and
still today, as far as I know), we provided to students access to a
Windows terminal server with basically all the software they needed for
their studies (in parallel with
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Does
this spell the end of Hebrew support (which has always been terrible)
in Wine?
No. The fact no one was working on it spelled the end of Hebrew support
in Wine. This probably just means that someone got fed up and closed the
bugs.
Shachar
2008/12/9 Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
No. The fact no one was working on it spelled the end of Hebrew support in
Wine. This probably just means that someone got fed up and closed the bugs.
That is a better way of putting it!
With the exception of MS Office, I could do without Hebrew
On Tuesday, 9 בDecember 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:
With the exception of MS Office, I could do without Hebrew support in
Wine at all. But MS Office is so important for interoperability that I
cannot abandon it. At the moment I am stuck bringing every file to the
university to open them.
Every
2008/12/9 Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Every file? As someone using OpenOffice.org since before 1.x days
it looks a bit overestimated.
I exaggerated. But my professors still send files in Word with
complex, unneeded formating that OOo 3 cannot handle. They use
Mathtype, too, which even normal
In the past few days many bidi- and Hebrew-related bugs are being
closed as Abandoned, Wontfix, or other non-resolved closures.
Presumably this is because nobody is triaging or fixing them. Does
this spell the end of Hebrew support (which has always been terrible)
in Wine?
--
Dotan Cohen
On Tuesday, 9 בDecember 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:
But my professors still send files in Word with ...
They use Mathtype, too, which even normal Word cannot read.
... the university (Technion)
Hmmm... Professors in the Technion who use Word for *math*
Next, D.Knuth would send MS-Word articles to
2008/12/9 Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tuesday, 9 בDecember 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:
But my professors still send files in Word with ...
They use Mathtype, too, which even normal Word cannot read.
... the university (Technion)
Hmmm... Professors in the Technion who use Word for *math*
Oron Peled wrote:
Another (somewhat weird) idea. Maybe we can set a hebrew-bugzappers
mailing list and forward all the various *Hebrew Related* bugs (OOo,
Firefox, distros, etc.) This (or an equivalent RSS feed) would serve
as a focus zone for anyone who want to help push these subjects
On Tuesday, 9 בDecember 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/heb-bugzap
You have just been appointed list operator. Enjoy.
The speed of light really is too slow nowdays.
Thanks. Now everybody who files a *Hebrew* related bug
is kindly asked to CC this
2008/12/9 Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tuesday, 9 בDecember 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/heb-bugzap
You have just been appointed list operator. Enjoy.
The speed of light really is too slow nowdays.
Thanks. Now everybody who files a
2008/12/9 Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm a developer. I didn't do a lot of Bidi/Right-to-left/i18n/Hebrew
development, but I suppose I can learn.
I was hoping that you would pop up. Did you sign up for the heb-bugzap
list? If so then two of the four names that are most familiar to me in
On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/12/9 Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm a developer. I didn't do a lot of Bidi/Right-to-left/i18n/Hebrew
development, but I suppose I can learn.
I was hoping that you would pop up. Did you sign up for the heb-bugzap
list?
Yes, I did.
2008/12/10 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2008/12/9 Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Every file? As someone using OpenOffice.org since before 1.x days
it looks a bit overestimated.
I exaggerated. But my professors still send files in Word with
complex, unneeded formating that OOo 3 cannot
Amos Shapira wrote:
Also have you checked crossover office support? I think it's a bit
ahead of the plain WINE project and doesn't cost to much (actually was
given for free in a sale about a month ago).
Crossover has no better (and at times, had worse) support for BiDi than
vanilla Wine. If
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:41:29AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
2008/12/10 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2008/12/9 Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Every file? As someone using OpenOffice.org since before 1.x days
it looks a bit overestimated.
I exaggerated. But my professors still
2008/12/10 Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I exaggerated. But my professors still send files in Word with
complex, unneeded formating that OOo 3 cannot handle. They use
Mathtype, too, which even normal Word cannot read. I have asked them
time and again for PDFs. Their answer is that the
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