Have you tried LyX with the Heb-LaTeX and the necessary KB bindings etc.. ?? It can export to pdf and html, although I'm not sure how well the html would look in different browsers (I haven't tried it yet).
Eli 28/11/02 18:22:26, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: >> >> > >> > Hi! >> > >> > I have began writing a story title "The Pope Died on Sunday" which is >> > written in Hebrew but some words and sententences need to be in English. >> > You can find it here: >> > >> > http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/humour/Pope/ >> > >> > In any case, for now I write it in MS Word XP which is very convenient and >> > nice for these kind of things (I use very little formatting, no >> > sectioning, etc.). The problem is that it cannot run on Linux where I do >> > most of my work and so have to boot the computer to Windows to work on it. >> > I'd like to find a convenient alternative that will enable me to write >> > mixed Hebrew/English documents. >> >> Very "convinient", but produces very large html. >> >> Have a look at the html code. Any paragraph that includes enough mixed >> English/Hebrew is loaded with formatting codes. >> >> I think that it can be easily slashed (and be made better, in the process) >> >> The magic html entities you'll need are &rlm and &lrm (for HTML readers >> among you: &rlm; and &apm;lrm;) >> > >I don't care too much how big the HTML is as long as it looks well in >Internet Explorer and in Mozilla (which it does). I know it is very >bloated and does not validate, but it is a good HTML. > >> > >> > What I need is: >> > >> > 1. Ability to convert to logical HTML (very important). >> > >> > 2. Ability to produce PDF (not necessarily the best PDF) >> > >> > 3. Ability to be inputted into Word somehow (I guess it can input any HTML >> > document that is valid enough). >> > >> > Now, working on Hebrew/Latin LaTeX using he2 is very nice, and I can >> > easily trade it for Word. The question is how well can I generate HTML >> > with it? >> > >> > Any other options? Open Office? AbiWord? (I don't need tables) I had bad >> > experience with Mozilla Composer which is full of bugs and annoyances. >> > Will one of the KDE or Gtk2 editors do for Bi-Di HTML editing? >> >> BTW: OpenOffice and Abiword run on a number of platforms. >> > >Whatever. I need something that runs primarily on Linux. > >> MS-Word, OpenOffice-Writer and AbiWord (And Lyx) are word processors. You >> can't compare them to text editors. >> > >In this case, I can. I need something in which I can write Hebrew and >English and produce good output without losing my mind. I don't care if >it's a text editor or a word processor - I just need something that will >do the job well. > >> I also don't like depending on a program I can't run from the shell (lyx >> can be run from the shell: at least to export to any format from an >> existing lyx document, BTW), because time and again I needed to copy the >> file from another place and 'make copy' or 'make mail' or 'make print' in >> the last minute. >> > >Very well, building the files entirely from a shell script would be a nice >bonus. > >But I'm still waiting for an answer. Can Mixed Hebrew/English LateX be >easily converted to good HTML that can be viewed on MSIE and Mozilla? Can >I simply use a Unicode and Bi-Di enabled text editor to write HTML. (no >gvim is not the answer - I don't want to reverse and reverse again the >HTML) > >Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > >> -- >> Tzafrir Cohen >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir >> > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ >Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >"Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." >"Wait a second - is n a natural number?" > > >================================================================= >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] > > "There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones.." - Dire Straits - "Brothers in Arms" ================================================================= 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]
