On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:01:27AM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> Hi Yechiel,
> To use OOo for Hebrew on RedHat Linux you need to do (at least) two
> things:
>
> 1. Fonts
>
> You need to install Hebrew fonts using the program/spadmin tool. You can
> purchase your own fonts or find free fonts at present.
What about the Hebrew fonts that come with RH9 (culmus)?
>
> In the near future Sun will provide four or five Hebrew fonts for use in
> OpenOffice and StarOffice.
>
>
> 2. Keyboard Mapping
>
> You need to install your own Hebrew keymap. I use the Hebrew keymap that I
> donloaded from pango.org. However, I believe that Tzafrir Cohen, whos is
> subscribed to the linux.org.il mailing list, has a more advanced version
> that includes diacritics ("nikud").
It is actually part of the standard XFree as of XFree 4.3 (the variants
lyx and si1453)
But then again, a standard sane Hebrew keymap has been part of XFree
since around 4.0.3
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