Hi, I just spoke with the guy on the phone (by the way, his name is Itzhak Mintz, by the way). He was interested in the whole thing, and asked me to resend to him your responses. So unless someone has any objections, I'm going to resend him the whole thread.
Moshe Moshe Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [24/09/02 11:27]: > Hi, > When I was a kid, I used a word processor called Qtext on my dos > machine. It was a freeware written by an Israeli guy, and had a better > (by far) bidi support than any alternative I knew. > > Yesterday, I discovered that I work with the guy who wrote it in the > same room. He told me that Qtext still exists, it is no longer a > freeware (it belongs to his kibutz) and that it still has the best bidi > support (they have only a window$ version). He also told me that the > developement of Qtext has stopped, since people seem to prefer M$ word > (apparently for the same obscure reasons they prefer other M$ > software :). Anyway, he told me that they might be willing to sell the > source. Since they ceased developing it, I guess the price won't be very > high, and if it is possible to port it to linux, this might be the best > bidi word processor we have (it also supports Arabic and nikud). > > My question is, is there someone who might want to fund it? > > Moshe > > -- > Moshe Kaminsky > (Home) 08-9471073 > > ================================================================= > 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] > ================================================================= 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]
