2012/2/26 Arie Skliarouk <sklia...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > A friend of mine asked me for a solution to type weekly "daf-kesher" for his > boy's school. His requirements are pretty basic - all interface to be on > hebrew, basic text editing, rashi fonts, nikud, way to scan or transfer > photos from a camera and embed them into the document. > > He has no prior experience with computers, so re-learning is not an issue > here. > > Ubuntu with hebrew-enabled intertface and libreoffice so far fit the > requirements. So far he has not mentioned "responsa" or similar, which would > stop ubuntu approach in its tracks. > > I am concerned on the nikud part, e.g. how well libreoffice supports it. > Googling shows rendering issues. The https://bugs.freedesktop.org is down at > the moment, so I could not perform more detailed analysis. Can someone > testify on the level the hebrew nikud is supported in the libreoffice? > > Also, the page with nikud extension for openoffice is down: > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/nikud > Does anyone know the where I can download up-to-date version of the > extension? >
I use the Hebrew keymap Lyx to type Nikud. All the nikud are easy to find, Kamatz is on Shift-ק, Patach on Shift-פ, and so forth. Just enable it in the Keyboard settings. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
