On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > On Wednesday 21 August 2002 14:09, Cedar Cox wrote: > > Hi all, > > > >What is the current generally preferred MS word replacement in > > Linux (for Hebrew), if it exists? > > Not much of a change... > > You can use the partial bidi enabled open office, which, to tell the truth, > the best alternative you can find. There is a small company which is working > on fully enabled bidi to open office.
This small company is called Sun. Specifically, Sun/Germany (Formly StarDivision?) > Will we see those changes be rolled > back to open office or will be seen in star office 6.1? don't know.. This is their current plan. > > > What is the status of bidi in KOffice (KWord specifically)?I > > just looked at the KOffice 1.2 RC1 changelog and didn't seen > > anything. > > It have the hebrew enabled in QT, and it reads .DOC documents, but the tables > and fonts are not importing well. There should be some bidi support in kword in in the koffice spreadsheet beyond the bidi support of kde3. > > > What about GNOME* / others? I don't need full DTP like features, > > just a basic text editor w/ formatting for the non-hacker that uses > > "standard" formats (RTF..., not .doc ;) > > Then use Open Office. > > >What about spreadsheet applications? > > Good question. Maybe gnumeric will be ported to GTK-2, I don't know.. Is the current development branch of gnumeric (1.1.x?) working with gnome2? One small point: Q: Which word processors support bidi-two-columns mode? A: MS Word, Abiword (or am I confusing it with tables?) LyX (sort-of: use 'twocolumns from the interface ;-) ). Not in OpenOffice write and not in Kword. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
