Nikkud on QT will get fixed in the next version

2005-01-20 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, While currently no longer a list member, I am sending you this bessorah tovah: The annoying OOo nikud bug exists also in QT based apps, even as they are not dependent on each other AFAIK. After some bug reporting here http://bugs.kde.org/process_bug.cgi , I sent a bug report to Trolltech, w

SATA and AMD64 questions

2004-01-08 Thread Arie Folger
Quake and not using the machine as an application server? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of

Re: Genius Videocam Express

2003-12-29 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 29 December 2003 15:16, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Since no-one answered my original question, I'll ask another. Can anyone > recommend a CHEAP (no more than 100 shekels) Webcam that works in LINUX? Don't know what the price is in Israel, but I am using a cheap webcam, the Logitech quickca

Re: Document managment and workflow

2003-12-17 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 14:39, Yishay Mor wrote: > > CVS would be nice if I could get people to use normal editors with > > normal formats (read *ML) > > Mainly for myself, and some startups I work with. I didn't follow the entire discussion, so forgive me if this software has already been

[OT] Handhelds question

2003-12-17 Thread Arie Folger
Are there any handhelds that use unicode? Does the Sharp Zaurus support Hebrew? How is the sincynk of the Sharp Zaurii with Linux (I remember reading that there were issues with it). Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an

Re: problem with kde's font handling

2003-12-07 Thread Arie Folger
I installed a new user account on my box to see if my personal settings are causing KDE not to print TT fonts such as Times New Roman, and it didn't help. I can, however, print with non TT fonts such as Bitstream's serif font (called Times?). Anyway, so I tried to uninstall one problematic font

Re: document organization system

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
ng that provides an alternative to the current way of storing things in a hierarchical directory system. IOW, you could use Zope to implement this idea, but is it being done in the same way as newdocms? (then again, I am not sure that I described Zope properly) Arie Folger -- It is absurd to

Re: problem with kde's font handling

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:38, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > OpenOffice uses a rather independent fonts configuration. What about > gtk2 programs? What about abiword (uses Xft, but independently of > of gtk)? gnumeric? Abiword is OK, perfect with both Hebrew and English, although it doesn't handle

Re: document organization system

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:47, Gad wrote: > Isn't that the same idea as WinFS (planned for the next big version of > Windows) and GNUFS? GNUwhat? I googled and got nothing useful. Could you enlighten us, please? Arie -- If an important person, out of humility, does not want to rely on [the

Re: document organization system

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 05 December 2003 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just a couple of days ago Magnolia 1.0 was announced. > It's still not there, but they list WebDAV first in > their roadmap. (which was just what I would look at to > get what you want) > > http://www.obinary.com/en/magnolia.html Magnoli

Re: document organization system

2003-12-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 05 December 2003 10:51, Aaron wrote: > Hmm, just what I need for my projects, did you try the download?? Is it > at all usable?? > > Aaron No, I never did. I was waiting for it to become more mature. Arie -- If an important person, out of humility, does not want to rely on [the Law, a

problem with kde's font handling

2003-12-05 Thread Arie Folger
e files should exist. OOo may use its own, ghostscript-independent system for generating the PDFs, which is why those are not affected. Thanks for any help, Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar a

document organization system

2003-12-05 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I returned to a site that once impressed me, only to find out development stopped (http://m-arriaga.net/software/newdocms/). I wonder if other people are working on similar project. Googling and searching freshmeat did not turn up productive results. Anybody can provide further pointers to

Re: IGLU FAQ and Hebrew keyboard layouts

2003-12-01 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 30 November 2003 18:40, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > As of XFree 4.3 the Xkb can mix-and-match Groups. Up until 4.2.1 the > "il" layout had to assume the the Israeli group will be the second group > and that the first group will be US-English (see the xkb/symbols/il of > XFree 4.1.0 - 4.2.1 as

Re: IGLU FAQ and Hebrew keyboard layouts

2003-11-30 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 30 November 2003 10:12, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > What do you mean by 4 layouts? 4 variants. I assume that the difference is in the layout of certain non Alephbetic keys. > As you use Fedora Core 1, you use XFree 4.3. Therefore you can easily > use one of the two variants of the "il" layo

IGLU FAQ and Hebrew keyboard layouts

2003-11-28 Thread Arie Folger
as to what the difference between them is. In particular, I have no idea how to get niqud under Linux (I rarely use it, when I do, I am forced to use the insert character kind of options of either KDE or OOo). Thanks for the good work, FAQ authors, Arie Folger -- If an important person, o

SOLVED: fedora core 1 - openoffice 1.1.0-6 & Hebrew

2003-11-27 Thread Arie Folger
I deleted all traces of my openoffice installation as far as my homedir goes, and ran setup from the rpm installed version, and lo and behold, everything is all right now. Hebrew works, German works (including umlauts, i.e. ÃÃÃ, and regardless of locale setting, which was an issue in 1.1.0-RC3).

Re: fedora core 1 - openoffice 1.1.0-6 & Hebrew

2003-11-27 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 27 November 2003 18:33, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Arie Folger wrote: > >* worse than the above is that the supplied version of OOo, 1.1.0-6, > > doesn't seem to do Hebrew. I tested with the installed-from-tarball > > 1.1.0, and the latter still works 100%, Hebr

fedora core 1 - openoffice 1.1.0-6 & Hebrew

2003-11-27 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I just upgraded from RH9 to Fedora Core 1 (FC1?) and whereas my experience has been wonderful so far, I found the following two issues: * LPRng disappeared, replaced by CUPS. OK, I don't mind CUPS, except that it didn't support my printer until I found out the following: My printer, an HP

Re: xterm and hebrew

2003-11-18 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:13, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > You can use mlterm, xiterm (xterm with Sun's i18n code), konsole or > gnome-terminal if you want bidi support. Konsole has bidi support? that's new to me. I always need to see my konsole Hebrew text backwards. = Teminal output

Re: Mixed hebrew english table of contents and index in latex

2003-11-18 Thread Arie Folger
This sounds suspiciously like a bug I found lately in LyX and emailed to Dekel Tsur IIRC. He will be working on it, but was a bit busy lately, so it could take a few weeks. I would email him your file, so that he can see another example of the problem. Mine was with Hebrew quotes. You could swit

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Arie Folger
ent RedHats? Can you elaborate what those issues are? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -

OOo and niqud

2003-10-29 Thread Arie Folger
I use OOo 1.1rc3. It is great, except niqud is out, and I can't paste Hebrew from KDE apps. Any idea if or when these issues have been/will be fixed? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar

SOLVED: OOo with Hebrew and accented characters

2003-10-28 Thread Arie Folger
-8, I now use en_US without specifying the character set, and voilÃ, the accented characters can be typed in from a KDE-configured keyboard. Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already

Re: AOL doesn't accept mail - free relaying of email

2003-10-21 Thread Arie Folger
So what is it I should do? And who is blacklisted, I or my ISP? (I am, as I stated earlier, on a private IP from an ADSL router - that does have a public IP - connected to an ISP. My box is a plain vanilla RH9.) Arie Folger On Tuesday 21 October 2003 03:59, Boris Ratner wrote: > I happen

Re: extracting text from a pdf.

2003-10-16 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:57, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:25:27AM +0200, Arie Folger wrote: > > How can I extract text from a pdf not using Adobe Acrobat Reader? And if > > the file is password protected? > > You can use xpdf or pdftotext. I couldn&

extracting text from a pdf.

2003-10-15 Thread Arie Folger
How can I extract text from a pdf not using Adobe Acrobat Reader? And if the file is password protected? Arie -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a

Re: linux support for following webcams

2003-10-08 Thread Arie Folger
iheli wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:45, Arie Folger wrote: > > are the following webcams supported under linux? Note that I googled but > > found nothing on these models: > > > > * Logitech QuickCa

linux support for following webcams

2003-10-05 Thread Arie Folger
are the following webcams supported under linux? Note that I googled but found nothing on these models: * Logitech QuickCam Express USB W32 * Labtec Webcam USB I have no idea what kind of chipsets are in there, and do not have the option of trying before I buy. Thanks for the tips, Arie --

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Arie Folger
Is it possible to set paragraph direction when in a non Hebrew locale? (i.e., when in LOCALE en_US, even when I force OOwriter to display the paragraph direction button, it is grayed out. When I start OO in a Hebrew locale, it defaults all paragraphs to RTL, which is not what I want.) Arie --

OpenOffice 1.1 in Hebrew locale shows everything right to left

2003-09-21 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I just installed OO 1.1 besides my existing 1.0, and to my horror, documents created in 1.0 show up a bit differently in 1.1 (bad for documents where graphic layout is important, such as Impress or Draw documenst with lots of text boxes). Even worse, all the paragraphs are right to left, ev

why are some pdfs by OOo not readable by adobe acrobat?

2003-08-24 Thread Arie Folger
I produced a landscape document with OOo Draw, and although gv will display the document, kghostview and acroread won't. A pdf that non Linuxers can't read kind of defeats the purpose of creating the pdf in the first place, does it?;-) Why is that pdf considered corrupted by acroread and kghost

Re: konqueror not embedding pdf reader

2003-08-18 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 17 August 2003 20:27, Oded Arbel wrote: > Oh, mistakingly I thought you were using kghostview. I don't know if kpdf > is embedable at all (me thinks its not). Sorry, my mistake. I am using kghostview. This is what happens when clicking to often rather than using the CLI :-( Arie -- I

Re: konqueror not embedding pdf reader

2003-08-17 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 15 August 2003 12:52, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2003 12:09, Arie Folger wrote: > > I am using KDE 3.1.3, and I noticed that when clicking on a hyperlink to > > a pdf document, (a) konqueror does not embed the document, but spawns a > > regular copy of

konqueror not embedding pdf reader

2003-08-15 Thread Arie Folger
, especially for (b)? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaph

Re: SOLVED (part 2): problems with printing system

2003-07-30 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 00:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:06:38PM +0200, Arie Folger wrote: > > Now I still 'd like to figure out why went wrong with the updated glibc > > (glibc-2.3.2-27.9) that trashed my system, leading to the whole mess in > >

Re: SOLVED (part 2): problems with printing system

2003-07-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 28 July 2003 21:44, Arie Folger wrote: > > First, LPRng is on the system, and won't go away, even though I have > > cups: [EMAIL PROTECTED] afolger]# rpm -e LPRng > > failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory > > error: %preun(LPRng-3.8.1

SOLVED (partly): problems with printing system

2003-07-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 28 July 2003 09:52, Arie Folger wrote: > Yesterday, I reinstalled my RH9.0 from scratch (because the old setup went > kaput when I installed an updated glibc ... go figure. Caused segmentation > faults and nothing worked afterwards, and even with rescue disk, nothing > could

problems with printing system

2003-07-28 Thread Arie Folger
Yesterday, I reinstalled my RH9.0 from scratch (because the old setup went kaput when I installed an updated glibc ... go figure. Caused segmentation faults and nothing worked afterwards, and even with rescue disk, nothing could seemingly be done to get it going again. The RPM database had been

system wide settings on KDE

2003-06-26 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I have a problem with kjots. It automatically becomes wider than the screen, and refuses to be resized. I found out that there is a setting in the kjots config file that specifies the width, and changed it ... to no avail. as soon as I restart kjots, the new value is replaced with the old v

Re: Other Truetype fonts in RH9

2003-06-24 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 14:51, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Add those fonts to your fontconfig. > > Take a look at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf . See how existing directories are > configured, and add. Though you should generqally change only > /etc/fonts/local.conf Thanks. It worked, but I do wonder why ussuc

Other Truetype fonts in RH9

2003-06-24 Thread Arie Folger
I just upgraded to RH9, and although xfontsel will see my other, locally installed TT fonts, mainly MS webfonts, qt and kde will have none of it. How come? Arie -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he i

AOL doesn't accept mail - free relaying of email

2003-06-12 Thread Arie Folger
right to conclude that this complaint of AOL's is directed towards my ISP? Or is it towards the ADSL router of ours? Also, I mailed them a complaint letter why they shouldn't maintain such a policy, but they didn't even bother to reply. Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to giv

software for designing/managing forms with sql backend

2003-03-31 Thread Arie Folger
I am looking for an easy way (similar to MSAccess) to create forms for mysql databases, and then to implement those forms. Same for reports. HTML/PHP/CGI is acceptable but not ideal, since I would like a slick printing engine. MySQL control center does not qualify because it is an administration

Re: Hebrew printing from KWord

2003-03-26 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > For the rest of us, this is what I did to solve the problem: > Run the kcontrol, and go to "Font Installer" (it's under "System > Administration"). > Switch to administrator mode. > On "settings", Check (under AFMs) "Generate with", and selec

Re: Hebrew printing from KWord

2003-03-24 Thread Arie Folger
Monday 24 March 2003 17:43, Arie Folger wrote: > > This came up a few times, but there seem to be two kinds of kword users > > on list, those who managed to make Hebrew print and those who didn't. > > > > I have enabled font embedding with qtconfig. I installed ms-webf

Hebrew printing from KWord

2003-03-24 Thread Arie Folger
This came up a few times, but there seem to be two kinds of kword users on list, those who managed to make Hebrew print and those who didn't. I have enabled font embedding with qtconfig. I installed ms-webfonts Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman and Tahoma. I disabled font substitution of Aria

Re: Palm+Outlook compatible PIM

2003-03-12 Thread Arie Folger
Ok, I got evolution working again, and like some of its features while I bemoan the lack of unicode support. I will test it later today. Back to korganizer: I tried to import into outlook both a vcalendar and an icalender file exported by korganizer, and neither was accepted. Any clue why? Ari

Re: Palm+Outlook compatible PIM

2003-03-11 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 14:36, Aviram Jenik wrote: > I was under the impression that you searched for a server-side solution; > but if you're simply looking for a mail client that can send and receive > appointment requests/responses from Outlook, evolution will do it quite > seamlessly. > However

Re: Palm+Outlook compatible PIM

2003-03-11 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 13:04, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > kroupware will enable you to share the calendar, meeting bla bla. Yes, but what will I do until they produce something useable. Is there a temporary fix? I tried saving to vcal and emailing the file, but outlook on the other machine choked

Palm+Outlook compatible PIM

2003-03-11 Thread Arie Folger
I am trying to cooperate with other fellows in this office. However, being the only Linux user, I haven't found yet a satisfying manner to share my calendar with the secretary, who uses Windows. I am using Korganizer, but will have no compunctions switching to evolution, if, by listmembers' reco

brother hl 720

2003-03-07 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, According to linuxprinting.org the Brother HL 720 printer is supposed to work perfectly. I tested this printer under both cups and lprng and the printer will print 2-3 pages and then go beserk and refuse to finnis the job or to accept new jobs. I tried to find the author' email, but found n

Re: [Fwd: BSA Accuses OpenOffice ftp sites of piracy]

2003-03-05 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 15:59, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > - You can't write a loop that will execute the same code many times. > This too existed in Babbage's engine but algorithms were written > expecting such an ability long before, for example Euclid's > algorithm for finding the

Re: Hebrew *.doc and e-mail experiment

2003-02-04 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 11:29, shlomo solomon wrote: > I received an attachment containig a Hebrew > Word .doc file. Since I had to read it, I tried an experiment and it > worked. Here's what I did. I first opened the file with OpenOffice. This is > **not** the Hebrew version being developed, b

Searching software for organizing ideas

2003-01-31 Thread Arie Folger
ible in perl or some other rapid scripting language. Ideas? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Ari

latin keyboard layout - REPOSTED

2003-01-28 Thread Arie Folger
r)? And I also notice that KDE insists that the left win key is a modifier. How do I change that key into a non modifier key? Thanks, Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this,

latin keyboard layout - (now with my correct email address for iglu)

2002-12-24 Thread Arie Folger
that KDE insists that the left win key is a modifier. How do I change that key into a non modifier key? Thanks, Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is n

video file formats & kino

2002-12-21 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I have been experimenting with kino a bit, and noticed that some of the supposedly available mpeg export formats (DivX, "generic MPEG2" and possibly more) are not available. I assume I am missing some libraries, but do not have the slightest clue asto which ones. The manual doesn't say anyt

Re: strange file permission problem

2002-12-19 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 19 December 2002 11:19, shlomo solomon wrote: > I have a strange problem. Actually, I've solved it, but I don't like the > solution and I don't like not knowing what's causing it. So maybe someone > can help. > The problem is that every so often (I don't know when it happens), the > pe

Where did my dv device go?

2002-12-09 Thread Arie Folger
doesn't it complain using some error message? Ergo, it theoretically works, but something is wrong. Help. BTW, I alreadyt tried fiddling with the cables. I am now using RH8.0. Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account o

Re: SOLUTION: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-12-05 Thread Arie Folger
I wrote: I did not try reinstalling RH7.3, but got it right anyway, although only with mplayer. Well, this is incorrect. This is what happens when you leave a message a little too long in the drafts folder. I did install a RedHat 7.3 partition, which was important in discovering what software c

SOLUTION: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-12-04 Thread Arie Folger
card) from a RH7.3 partition to your RH8.0 system. Note: the problem has been diagnosed on Gentoo as well, so it is not a RH only issue. Thank Chris Frey for the solution. Arie Folger = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: External USB cd writers for Linux

2002-12-03 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 03 December 2002 14:41, Mark Veltzer wrote: > Can anybody recommend any that are known to work well under Linux ? I used somebody else's PlexWriter USB CD writer, and it worked out of the box using RH 7.3 and RH 8.0 (it's a 4x drive). I may have gotten the full name wrong, but it's de

Re: netscape plugins in Mozilla

2002-12-01 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 01 December 2002 14:03, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Additional question: I often notice a complain about the browser being > > unable to load the right plugin for a file ending in .swf. Is that a > > Macromedia Shockwave file? Doesn't exist for Linux, too bad if its indeed > > a Shockwave fi

netscape plugins in Mozilla

2002-12-01 Thread Arie Folger
at is the difference between flash and shockwave? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristo

fetchmailconf

2002-12-01 Thread Arie Folger
al up connection goes up. The settings are to be found in each user's .fetchmailrc. Arie Folger -- Happy user of fetchmail = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message

Re: Writing Mixed Hebrew/English Documents on Linux

2002-11-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 28 November 2002 18:31, voguemaster wrote: > Another thing is, is it possible to do double-column documents (such as in > many academic papers) ?? I'm assuming it can, but I haven't found anything > on this in the user guide. You can. IIRC you need to click on Layout->Document or Paragr

Re: Writing Mixed Hebrew/English Documents on Linux

2002-11-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 28 November 2002 11:58, voguemaster wrote: > Have you tried LyX with the Heb-LaTeX and the necessary KB bindings etc.. > ?? It can export to pdf and html, although I'm not sure how well the html > would look in different browsers (I haven't tried it yet). See my post you should have go

Re: Writing Mixed Hebrew/English Documents on Linux

2002-11-28 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 28 November 2002 10:18, Shlomi Fish wrote: > What I need is: > > 1. Ability to convert to logical HTML (very important). > > 2. Ability to produce PDF (not necessarily the best PDF) > > 3. Ability to be inputted into Word somehow (I guess it can input any HTML > document that is valid e

Re: mozilla only sets utf-8 automatically on static html

2002-11-27 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:54, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > You should look for HTTP headers, as those override the headers set in the > file. > > Try, e.g. 'wget --server-resposne --O /dev/null http://server/page' Thanks. The header shows that the charset set in the header is indeed iso-8859-1 eve

Re: mozilla only sets utf-8 automatically on static html

2002-11-26 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 11:45, Dvir Volk wrote: > Maybe it has something to do with how this section of php.ini is > configured in your case? > > ; As of 4.0b4, PHP always outputs a character encoding by default in > ; the Content-type: header. To disable sending of the charset, simply > ; set

mozilla only sets utf-8 automatically on static html

2002-11-26 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I am puzzled. I am using the latest RH stable mozilla (1.0.1-26), and noticed that dynamic (php) pages that are encoded in utf-8 (including the correct meta tag) are recognized as such by konqueror, but not by mozilla. However, if I save the page, and then view it with mozilla, the thing is

Re: OpenWebMail & Hebrew

2002-11-26 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 25 November 2002 09:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 1. What is the official name of the "Logical" hebrew encoding? Windows > > 1255 or > > ISO8859-8-i? > > ISO-8859-8-I. But a software package should be able to recognize > WINDOWS-1255 as Hebr

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-22 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 22 November 2002 08:40, Lars Knoll wrote: > KDE would really benefit from some developers speaking arabic > and/or hebrew. I'm trying to ensure things are working for right to left > languages, but I've got enough to do to ensure Qt and khtml/konqueror is > working as it should. Well, to

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-21 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 21 November 2002 03:32, you wrote: > > Should I forward this to some kde developer? (Lars ... what's his email?) > He's actually on this list ;-) > Comments to some of your points (I have no idea about the others): > > 1* can produce ps > 2* ps has embedded fonts > > Both should work.

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-21 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 21 November 2002 09:53, Martin Polley wrote: > It depends on the font. If it is a font that is already available to X > apps AND to gs, no problem. > > If it is available to X and NOT to gs, then you need to make it > available to gs. > Arie Folger [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-21 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:50, Martin Polley wrote: > It does #2 and #5 as well. Just enabling font embedding is not > enough--you have to make the Hebrew fonts available to GhostScript. Why not, ghostscript has no problem printing Hebrew coming from konqueror or lyx, after all? Arie =

Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-20 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 12:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Arie Folger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * html does not contain dir=rtl tags, an issue when a paragraph starts > > with certain sequences, such as "1.", which should be displayed as ".1",

Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

2002-11-20 Thread Arie Folger
yx, OTOH, doesn't do utf-8, so I am setting my eyes on the soon to be mainstreamed bidi implementation of openoffice... (any news on that front?) Should I forward this to some kde developer? (Lars ... what's his email?) Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter

Re: php question

2002-11-19 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 14:33, Andre E. Bar'yudin wrote: > The reason is, that in my opinion "utf8" is not a legal codepage name > (at least for Mozilla, although Java eats it as an alias to UTF-8, as > far as I remember). Probably Konqueror does support this name too. > > So, maybe the origin

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-19 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:05, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > 4. I have asked in the past for help, and indicated quite clearly > that even telling me "I use this application on Windows, and it uses > Hebrew" is considered help, as it focuses my work. So far, the only one to > come forward and offer

Re: php question

2002-11-19 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, a little test - which I told Arye to do, but decided to do myself: I > wrote a small CGI: > So it is definitely *not* PHP which sends out the HTML entities, but > Mozilla itself - as you can see, the cgi itself is pure bash. Now, l

Re: php question

2002-11-17 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 17 November 2002 13:46, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:12:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has your input come from Mozilla? It does that. To make sure, write a cgi > > script (if you don't trust PHP) that displays its input as text/plain, > > and create a f

Re: php question

2002-11-17 Thread Arie Folger
On Sunday 17 November 2002 03:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Arie Folger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > I modified phpnuke to allo utf8, and started filling the site with > > content (although for now the search function has been disabled because I &

php question

2002-11-16 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I modified phpnuke to allo utf8, and started filling the site with content (although for now the search function has been disabled because I expect it not to do Hebrew yet). Then, after viewing a Hebrew article as html source, I noticed that instead of unicode chararacters I got numbered en

converting from/to LyX/LaTeX to kword

2002-11-14 Thread Arie Folger
(yet). Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristotle's M

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-09 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 08 November 2002 18:51, guy keren wrote: > mplayer has an option that specifies how it will send images (the '-vo' > option). you can run it and tell it to use something other then 'xv', and > see if the problem goes away. I tried that at first. BTW, mplayer is the only one that had a us

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-08 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 08 November 2002 11:05, you wrote (off list): > hmm, i never tried rh8, i never use .0 products (too buggy). > do you really have to use RedHat ? Use Gentoo, mplayer works beautiful. Flamer ;-). Seriously, though, I'd love to try Gentoo, but I am no longer on a T1, just dial up (hope I

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-08 Thread Arie Folger
OK, after having decided that RH8.0's xv extensions are the probable source of trouble, I moved my /usr/local partition's content to /usr/local on the /usr partition, and installed a barebones RH7.3 on the freed partition (1GB). Xine now plays the dvds beautifully. Of course, dual booting is not

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 16:26, Oleg Kobets wrote: > Other then that, what graphics card do you use ? If it's ATI like me, > compile XVidix and it will work superbly, or use good nvidia drivers which > supposely work too with xv. Now it dawns on me, xvidix is for ati cards only, not for my tr

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 16:26, Oleg Kobets wrote: > Check permissions on /dev/dsp for "no sound" problem. That is a misleading error message. Since the "selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec", there is no stream, and thus no sound. I thought this would be obvious, sorry

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
ted vo & vd! Video attribute 'saturation' isn't supported by selected vo & vd! Video attribute 'hue' isn't supported by selected vo & vd! Audio: no sound!!! Start playing... V: 0.8 15 0% 0% 0.0% 0 0 0% ++ END OF ERROR MESSAGE +++

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 12:26, Arie Folger wrote: > I can now confirm that the dvd playing softwares are the troublemakers; I > just popped in another disc, and the results are the same: instead of a > normal image, I see a split screen with two copies of the same half image. >

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
I can now confirm that the dvd playing softwares are the troublemakers; I just popped in another disc, and the results are the same: instead of a normal image, I see a split screen with two copies of the same half image. I will try to install a minimal RH7.3 on a spare partition (well, the part

SOLUTION Re: resizing /

2002-11-05 Thread Arie Folger
I ended up finding some spare place to store an interim / partition, modified /etc/fstab to allow booting in that partition and mounting of the original / in /mnt/spare. Thing to watch out for: since grub looks for its config file on the original /, one should really carry out the entire migrat

Re: Laptop screen is blanking out

2002-11-05 Thread Arie Folger
Low tech solution: did you try to fiddle with the switch in the lid that switches the screen on and off when opening and closing the lid? works for me when apm messes up a little, both under X and in console. Arie Folger = To

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-10-31 Thread Arie Folger
Ext 26 > > "Black hole is God divided by zero" > - Original Message - > From: "Martin Polley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Arie Folger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Oleg Kobets" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Linux IL

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-10-31 Thread Arie Folger
On Thursday 31 October 2002 03:43, Martin Polley wrote: > I've heard good things about Xine, too. (The pronunciation doesn't sound > good in Hebrew though...) Since I posted, I tried Xine as well, and same result. I am gonna look for a neighbour to test the physical media. I tried downloading mp

dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-10-30 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I installed ogle and videolan client, and both suffer from the same illnes: I see only half the image, and that half is kind of displayed twice. I am using RH8.0, and the following relevant packages are installed: aalib-1.4rc4-fr2.1 alsa-lib-0.9.0rc3 libdvdcss-1.2.3-fr1 libdvdread-0.9.3-fr1.

Re: increasing the keyboard's responsiveness

2002-10-30 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:02, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > "xset r rate" in X. > > e.g. > > xset r rate 250 30 > > is my preferred setting (repeat delay 250, repeat rate 30). This sets the autorepeat rate. But does this influence the delay between different keystrokes? When I use the arrow keys

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