Hi all
Below is the announcement
The Haifa Linux Club is happy to announce version 1.0 of R2L
Q: What is R2L?
A: R2L is a package which contains biditext, along with a couple of
accessory programs.
Q: What is biditext?
A: biditext is a library that adds a degree of bidirectional (bidi)
support to any X program. This means that an X program that is run
under biditext will display hebrew text properly, and not "reversed".
Q: What else is in the package?
A: The package also includes:
* r2l programs (r2l, r2lgnomeapplet, r2ldockapp, r2lterminal, r2ltcl).
Those programs control the behaviour of runing copies of the
biditext libraries (e.g: allow you to disable biditext temporarily
if it confuses you).
* refreshd: Whenever an r2l program enables or diables biditext, the
changes are only visible when that window gets refreshed. refreshd
(Refresh Daemon) refreshes the relevant windows automatically.
* r2llib: The library that provides the interface used by biditext and
r2l clients. Useful if you want to write your own r2l program.
Q: Is it free?
A: Of course. r2l is available under the terms of the GNU (L)GPL. You are
free to use, redistribute, modify, and whatever. See the README file
for the gory details.
Q: Where can I get it from?
A: http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/R2L/
See this page for the tarball, as well as RPM packages (use rpm -tb to
build them from the tarball)
biditext requires the library fribidi, which can be found at
http://fribidi.sf.net/
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Tzafrir Cohen
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http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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