On Monday, August 20th at 18:30, Haifux will celebrate a Bar-Mitsva and gather to hear Zvi Gilboa talk about:
Placing the Dots: On the Technical Challenges and Cultural Aspects of Typesetting Hebrew Vowel-Marks Abstract This lecture will discuss the challenges presented by Hebrew vowel marks (nikud) with respect to glyph-placement and kerning in (La)TeX and under Linux, as well as the various approaches to date to meet these challenges, and likewise the cultural aspects of their causes and implications. ================================================================= We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ================================================================== Future lectures: 03/09/12 The Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) Cloud: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda 24/09/12 FOSS for production of goods (tentative title) - Yael Vaya-Talmor 15/10/12 Adding colors to Kademlia - Gil Einziger 29/10/12 Israeli DIgital Rights NPO - Zvi Devir (the first talk of the semester) ================================================================== We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org ~ -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org
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