I am glad to announce that IBM Israel is ready to distribute updates to
the source for OpenOffice word processor (swriter), aimed at providing
Bidi (Hebrew and Arabic) support.
According to the guidelines set by our legal department, we cannot release
the full product, so we have built a set of diff source files and
associated documentation. Whoever wants to create a Bidi-enabled version
of swriter should do the following:
a) Ask me (by private e-mail) to send you the package (around 600K for the
doc and 120K for the source diff files)
b) Wait patiently to receive the stuff as e-mail attachments
c) Read the doc
d) Download the full sources of OpenOffice
e) Apply the diff files to the OpenOffice source files as described in the
doc (CompilOO641d.html)
f) Build the OpenOffice executables (also described in the doc)
g) Test swriter with Hebrew
h) Be happy everafter?
When the changes and build will have been verified by at least one of the
wise linux-il crowd, we would be very glad if somebody (iglu site?) can
put the update package and/or the executables on some ftp server for
everybody to download.
Shalom (Regards), Mati
Bidi Architect
Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
IBM Israel
Phone: +972 2 5870999 ext. 1202 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile:
+972 52 554160
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