On Tuesday June 17 2003 12:14 pm, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Tuesday 17 June 2003 18:36, Hooman Baradaran wrote: > > > Hi Hooman, > > > > > > Have you tried KWord of KOffice? It is quite good and works well > > > for Farsi. > > > > > > Another choice is going to be the new OO.org if you want to have it > > > on both platfomrs. At this moment however, it seems that the new > > > OO.org will work for Farsi on Red Hat only, as it ships with a > > > patched XFree86. > > > > > > Try them both and see which one suits you better. > > > > > > Good luck and greetings, > > > Arash > > > > Thanks Arash, > > I sure have tried KWord. As for Farsi I think it's better than those > > Farsi word processors out there. But KWork has many bugs specially > > for HTML editing. > > Well, KOffice is not without bugs, but it certainly beats a shit out of > many word processors out there. Yes, as I said before, as for the Farsi typing KWord IMO is the best software I've ever used. I specially like the fact that unlike Windows when I switch keyboard in KDE is starts typing from right-to-left! > > If you are heavily into HTML editing, Quanta is a better bet though. It > also has farsi support. Didn't know it has Farsi support. This should be great! :) > > > As for OO.org I was waiting for Farsi support and if the support is > > as good as KWord it should do it for me! > > It seems OOo 1.1 Beta supports BiDi languages now, but I Unix it seems X > should be patched, in order for it to work. RedHat has patched X, so > OOo 1.1 Beta on RedHat Linux works flawlessly. On othe distros, > unfortunately we haven't been able to identify that patch and commit it > back to the XFree86 Project. > > > Also as for the project I suggest, I meant a multi-platform tool but > > on second thought personal I prefer to have Farsi in the office > > products I use rather than a seperate program. > > OOo runs on Solaris, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is certainly > multi platform, by any account. Yes, I complete forgot the fact that OO.org is multiplatform! In fact the first time I tried it was on Windows. > > KOffice runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X, which is all > that is important for many people ;-) KDE in general runs on any kind > of *nix. So by many people's call, it is also protable and > multi-platform. > > Cheers > > PS: It is always better to work on the internationalization and > localization of already available software, rather than wrting > something from scracth. > > PPS: TeX is not a word processors, but many people believe that it is > better than any word processor can ever be! I was suprised to find out > that author of the book which I am currently studying about Calculus in > university, wrote in the first page of his book: "I typeset this book > using TeX running on a Mandrake Linux system. I should take this > opportunity to thank the developers of TeX and GNU/Linux in general, > for providing such powerfull and reliable tools to me.
P.S. Apparently all math people use *nix. In my university too the math department uses *nix and tex (except some Maple computer that run Windows for those stupid students). I don't recall any math prof. that is not using *nix! :-) -------------------- Hooman Baradaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hoomanb.com -------------------- _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
