Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL
i think the problem is not only adding bidi support, but also adding/modifing the input filters so it can import hebrew documents ( it will be a lot better if it could read MsWord format ... ) regards erez. Ira Abramov wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: I think that we all together will code the hebrew support for office, it will be not so hard.. You don't have to wait for Star office. There are a few free word processors already: Abiword Maxwell KWord none of them is a full office suite yet. And probably any of them is easier to add bidi support than Star, since they are smaller. interesting conclusion, I can't see how it was derivied. the size of the code (which you don't know, because you didn't download for StarOffice yet) has nothing to do with the complexity or extendability of the wordprocessor's rendering engine's code. for all you know it's spaghetti in Abi and KWord and clean in StarOffice. it all remains to be seen. I encourage our esteemed membrs of the list who can afford the tiome and knowhow to pool for this cause. be it for Kword or office or Abi. -- Ira Abramov, GNU/Linux advocate. (@- //\ "Akamai, Google, MicroSoft, Sun, Oracle, Intel, NASA, Sony, v_/_Python, JPG, PNG - CS masturbation is changing the world." -- C.S. answering to Linus, 3/7/2000 = 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] = 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]
Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:07:11AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think the problem is not only adding bidi support, but also adding/modifing the input filters so it can import hebrew documents ( it will be a lot better if it could read MsWord format ... ) AbiWord opened hebrew Word documents I received properly (without the font, and reversed of course, since it's logical). Pasting thru fribidi (or alternatively nowadays: iconv -f cp1255 -t utf-8 | pango-viewer /dev/stdin ) worked fine to display the original text. -- Best regards, Ilya Konstantinov = 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]
Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL
YOHO! I think that we all together will code the hebrew support for office, it will be not so hard.. all we need to do is to understand the engine (the hard part) and write the addins for enjine that will support hebrew (the wasiest part, we can take dov's algorythms for this) Pavel Bibergal Yosi wrote: Hi, I have found a link on /. to the following article on ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2604174,00.html It seems, Sun will release StarOffice under the GNU Public license "later this summer" (Sun's words). I wonder how easy or hard will it be to hack the open sourced version of StarOffice to decently support Hebrew. Yosi Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com = 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] = 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]
Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL
I think that we all together will code the hebrew support for office, it will be not so hard.. all we need to do is to understand the engine (the hard part) and write the addins for enjine that will support hebrew (the wasiest part, we can take dov's algorythms for this) Pavel Bibergal Yosi wrote: You don't have to wait for Star office. There are a few free word processors already: Abiword Maxwell KWord And probably any of them is easier to add bidi support than Star, since they are smaller. -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = 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]
Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: I think that we all together will code the hebrew support for office, it will be not so hard.. You don't have to wait for Star office. There are a few free word processors already: Abiword Maxwell KWord none of them is a full office suite yet. And probably any of them is easier to add bidi support than Star, since they are smaller. interesting conclusion, I can't see how it was derivied. the size of the code (which you don't know, because you didn't download for StarOffice yet) has nothing to do with the complexity or extendability of the wordprocessor's rendering engine's code. for all you know it's spaghetti in Abi and KWord and clean in StarOffice. it all remains to be seen. I encourage our esteemed membrs of the list who can afford the tiome and knowhow to pool for this cause. be it for Kword or office or Abi. -- Ira Abramov, GNU/Linux advocate. (@- //\ "Akamai, Google, MicroSoft, Sun, Oracle, Intel, NASA, Sony, v_/_Python, JPG, PNG - CS masturbation is changing the world." -- C.S. answering to Linus, 3/7/2000 = 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]
Sun to release StarOffice as GPL
Hi, I have found a link on /. to the following article on ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2604174,00.html It seems, Sun will release StarOffice under the GNU Public license "later this summer" (Sun's words). I wonder how easy or hard will it be to hack the open sourced version of StarOffice to decently support Hebrew. Yosi Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com = 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]
