[dev] volunteer for English 3.0 for Mac PPC

[Dr Daniel Flickinger]

There are German and French versions of 3.0 for Mac PPC but not English.

Does the community need another version builder? I have the horsepower 
and the experience, particularly with FreeBSD which underlies Mac. I 
presume the primary task would be to compile in the language pacs.


The latest revision to OSX 10.5.5 blew Open Office 2.3.0 and 2.4.0 out 
of the water with changes to X11. I had to recompile Mozilla, Gimp, and 
Xemacs. The German and French versions of Open Office seem to work 
flawlessly but using the German version with a dictionary in hand is 
tedious since most of the menu items are not listed.


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Re: [dev] I want to contribute in programming

[dR]

I'm new to the list and have started building the 2.0
product. So, I'm getting there. ;-)

By the way, if anyone has build instructions for 1.1.5
on OS X, please share. 

Marko


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Re: [dev] Idea of academic Impress use

[Prof. Dr. Eduard Werner / Edward Wornar]

twrtk 17 februara 200514:32 Dr. Igli Gbor pisae:
 The advantages could be many:
 
 - Would run on almost all x86 hardware; thoroughly transportable
 - Prevent use of your presentation without your approval
 - Easy distribution by CD
 
 -- Mike

 I've already heard of that (with Knoppix). The problem is that you can't
 say that Linux will run on all available PC hardware. Let's take for
 example the problem of a secondary displays: you can't guarantee that
 the current Linux X drivers will handle all types of video cards and you
 can easily find yourself in a situation when the presentation won't go
 out to the secondary (projector) device. Then you just stand there with
 your CD in hand and...

I never had such a problem (and I'm using linux for 13 years now). Much more 
probable is that your knoppix boot sequence will choke on some weird BIOS and 
that it won't boot at all. But then, take a presentation with unicode chars 
from a Mac and try to run it on Powerpoint under Windows and you will already 
see how compatibility crumbles down on you. When I was organizing a 
conference, I received several presentations by email beforehand because my 
colleagues wanted to make sure that it will show up correctly -- mind you, 
they were expecting me to use Powerpoint (they didn't have the foggiest it 
would be OO and Impress under Linux) and they still were in doubt about the 
compatibility to their own PP presentations :-) 

If you want to be dead sure, you have to take slides, or bring your own 
computer. But then, you could always send the people organizing the 
conference a knoppix CD beforehand and ask them whether it boots.

Cheers

Edi

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Prof. Dr. Eduard Werner / Edward Wornar
Institut fr Sorabistik, Universitt Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15, 04109 Leipzig
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