Re: Iranian Calendar (P.S.)

2004-05-20 Thread Hooman Mehr
Hi Connie, OK, white flag up! I'll write some crime stories. But don't expect anything this week, I am very busy. Hooman On May 20, 2004, at 2:16 AM, C Bobroff wrote: Dear Hooman, I may move these stories to my pending weblog which hopefully will open in the next several days. Why should you move

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-20 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
> You can re-live its creation here in the archives: > http://lists.sharif.edu/pipermail/persiancomputing/2003-June/0 00538.html [snip] Thanks for the links. Seems like a very handy keyboard. BTW, why the Shift-Space combination does not work? > Done! Beautiful! > I hope the Mozilla users appre

LeapYears of Iranian Calendar

2004-05-20 Thread Ordak D. Coward
I was looking at Omid K. Rad's implementation of calendar, and have a few comments on calculating leap years. 1. The implemented algorithm uses a 128 year period, although the comments say it uses a 2820 year period. While I need to ask for this discrepancy be resolved, it is important to understa

Re: LeapYears of Iranian Calendar

2004-05-20 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote: > Ordak's 2820 year method: > bool isLeap2820ODC = ((683*year+542) % 2820) < 683; > > in comparison to: > > Birashk's 2820 year method: > bool isLeap2820Birashk = ((year % 2820) == 474) || > (((31 * ((year+2345) % 282

Re: Iranian Calendar (P.S.)

2004-05-20 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: > I'll write some crime stories. But don't expect anything this week, I > am very busy. OK! But if we are to properly judge your confession of past crimes, be sure to not leave out any details and please start from the beginning. You know, the glaciers were

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-20 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > BTW, why the > Shift-Space combination does not work? Because the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx thought the space bar is reserved for only spacing characters. Roozbeh said he sent MS a list of suc

Re: WEFT webpage font embedding--Call for feedback

2004-05-20 Thread C Bobroff
Well, I thought I was done with the Weft demo page, http://students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/weft.htm and could now catch up on my non-computing activities. Picked up reading Jamalzadeh's "Dar al-Majanin" where I'd left off months ago. What did I run into after just 2 pages? "I looked at th