added a biditext man page. it's not very up to date, nor is it particularly pretty, but it's a start. patches welcome.
-- mulix http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:39:48 +0200 (IST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LinPrj] CVS: r2l/biditext biditext.1,NONE,1.1 ChangeLog,1.1.1.1,1.2 Update of /archive/cvs/repos/r2l/biditext In directory alhambra:/system/backup/src/r2l/biditext Modified Files: ChangeLog Added Files: biditext.1 Log Message: 2001-12-25 mulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * biditext.1: added man page for biditext --- NEW FILE: biditext.1 --- .\" Process this file with .\" groff -man -Tascii biditext.1 .\" .TH Biditext 1 "December 2001" Linux "User Manuals" .SH NAME biditext \- enable showing bidirectional texts in X programs .SH SYNOPSIS .B biditext program [ .I arguments .B ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B biditext.so is a shared library that replaces the XDrawString, xXDrawImageString and XDrawString16 functions from the libX11 library, with ones that supports bidirectional printing. It will perform reversing only on fonts with Hebrew encodings (iso8859-8, microsoft-cp1255 and iso10646-1). .B biditext is a convenience script which sets the LD_PRELOAD environment variable and then runs the original program. .PP XDrawString changes the direction of the text only when a file .rev in your HOME directory exists, so when it does not exist, it behaves, exactly like the normal function from libX11.so. Creating or removing this file takes affect immediately, so it can be used when using Netscape to browse Hebrew sites, and moving between pages that use Visual / Logical Hebrew. .PP If you want to use another name (instead of $HOME/.rev) set the environment variable BIDITEXT_FILENAME to that file name before running biditext. e.g. (works with bash): BIDITEXT_FILENAME=$HOME/.rev-ns biditext netscape .PP See http://linuxclub.il.eu.org/R2L/ for some programs thet provide simple graphical interfaces for this feature. .PP This version also allows you to set the base directionality. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/lin-club%40vipe.technion.ac.il/msg00323.html for the exact details, and http://www.mail-archive.com/lin-club%40vipe.technion.ac.il/msg00327.html for some demostrations. .PP r2llib also provides a simple .BR r2l (1) command line program to query and set the r2l state and biditext base state. .PP Note that the approach used by biditext has some inherent limitations. The program is not aware of the logical->visual conversion and thus: .PP May draw parts of the line in seperate XDrawString calls (e.g: when editing a text, or when selecting it) .PP When you decide to create (or delete) the .rev file, the program's window will not update immedietly. The change will take effect only once the text will be redrawn (e.g.: by refreshing the whole window) .PP (The refreshd package of the r2l project is meant to answer the second problem. It's available from the afore mentioned locations) .PP It seems that the standard text box of qt2 programs does not suffer from the first limitation, and editing text with QT2 programs (like kedit and licq) works well, if you have got past the fonts problem. .SH FILES .I $HOME/.rev .RS This file's contents determine biditext's exact operation. It should not be handled directly, use the .BR r2l (1) utility to manipulate it. .SH ENVIRONMENT .IP PROFILE Enable printing of profiling information to stderr. .IP CHECK_CHARSET Enable checking of the string's character set to decide if it should be reversed. .IP TRACE_ANY TODO .IP TRACE_CHARSET TODO .IP TRACE_LOG2VIS TODO .SH REQUIRES .I fribidi Dov Grobgeld's fribidi library (version >=0.1.6), which is available from http://fribidi.sourceforge.net, that requires glib. .PP .I r2llib Biditext requires r2llib (version >= 0.32) which should have been already supplied with it. If not, it is available from http://technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/r2l .SH BUGS .PP Occasional Bus errors, usually when quiting netscape. .PP May have problems with programs that do some manipulations with the loader, e.g.: licq .PP 0.9 added recognition of the character set, and reverses only Hebrew strings. Thus if you use netscape 4 with web fonts, it won't revesse your text (because it is not exactly hebrew). Apply the turkish patch to netscape. .PP Regarding the changes of 0.9 and the Elmar fonts: See http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/01/07/msg00242.html .PP There is another function of similar functionality to XDrawString that is used for anti-aliased text (XftDrawString). This function is currently not handled by biditext. .SH AUTHORS Matan Ziv-Av ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) .PP Ilya Konstantinov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) .PP mulix ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) .PP Tzafrir Cohen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR r2l (1) Index: ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /archive/cvs/repos/r2l/biditext/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -d -r1.1.1.1 -r1.2 --- ChangeLog 2001/09/13 12:42:16 1.1.1.1 +++ ChangeLog 2001/12/25 21:39:44 1.2 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2001-12-25 mulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + * biditext.1: added man page for biditext + 2001-09-13 tzafrir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (0.9.6.1) * added uninstall target ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Projects Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
