On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Volker wrote:
> > I've got two Russian Israeli families boarding at my place.
>
> "Russian Israeli"? Which one?

Both. They're Russian Jews who lived in Israel before coming to NZ.
Just like I'm a "Dutch Kiwi" :-)
The point is they need both Cyrillic and Hebrew fonts.

> The Russian is trivial, it's called Cyrillic and generally works by
> replacing a Western font with a Cyrillic one in any word processor. It's
> installed for X11 and tetex/latex out of the box (though I can't say I
> tried).

I've discovered that even if a font is available in X,
it doesn't automatically become available in SO 5.2

> > Volker mentioned SuSE 8.0 recently. Would support be there
> > out-of-the-box?
>
> Yes, looks like it. SuSE hasn't shipped the .dtx documentation files for a
> while as far as I can make out (probably space constraints, afterall 7 CDs
> isn't that much), but they're there in dvi form.
>
> > Do either KWord or Abiword support right-to-left?
>
> I really doubt it. Check staroffice.

Thanks.

Yuri

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