Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-19 Thread Yotam Rubin
( 4.1.0), xlibs ( 4.1.0) Conflicts: openoffice, openoffice.org Installed-Size: 161960 Maintainer: Yotam Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: openoffice.org Description: high-quality office suite OpenOffice is a complete modern office suite, licensed under the GPL, with features comparable

Re: OpenOffice/bidi fonts problems

2002-05-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I could see a list of Type1 fonts in the fonts menu (helvetica, times, bookman, etc.). What do I need to do to make it use my Hebrew fonts? The fonts issue was due to the

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-16 Thread Sagi Bashari
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 00:24, Sagi Bashari wrote: On Tuesday 14 May 2002 20:09, Sagi Bashari wrote: From: Yotam Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Producing the RPM is a trivial task, simply use alien. I am willing to do it myself on iglu.org.il, but it's only a couple of commands. If

Re: OpenOffice/bidi fonts problems

2002-05-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I've had the same problem, and for the same reasons, I suspect. How do I change this configuration? Shachar Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I could see a list of Type1 fonts in the fonts menu (helvetica, times, bookman, etc.). What do I need to

Re: OpenOffice BIDI Support

2002-05-15 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
We have done some design work about Hebrew support for the spreadsheet and presentation apps in OpenOffice. Unfortunately, there is no funding, so it's all frozen for the time being. The current support for swriter does not help the other apps. Shalom (Regards), Mati Bidi

Re: debs for OpenOffice, take #2.

2002-05-15 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
. I will be glad if you can include the documentation in the package. In fact, it would be nice if the documentation was also made available in http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/OpenOffice/. Can the Webmaster take care of this? Shalom (Regards), Mati Bidi Architect

OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Yotam Rubin
Greetings, I have successfully compiled OO with IBM's BiDi patches. A couple of screenshots are available at http://212.179.208.62/oo-snap. While I have not extensively tested it, BiDi seems well supported. If a bandwidth oriented person is willing to host the packages, I'll create

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Yotam Rubin wrote: I have successfully compiled OO with IBM's BiDi patches. A couple of screenshots are available at http://212.179.208.62/oo-snap. While I have not extensively tested it, BiDi seems well supported. If a bandwidth oriented person is willing to host

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Yotam Rubin
on. did you compile them on an older distribution, or a very current one? what libraries versions is the binary linked against? we might be able to determine then which distros it might be able to run on - we better place them in a directory that reflects this issue. OpenOffice was compiled

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Yotam Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If a bandwidth oriented person is willing to host the packages, I'll create RPM's[0] for OO and its dependencies. That would be very nice. IGLU maintainers - this seems to be a prime candidate for ftp://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew, doesn't it? -- Oleg

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yes, but he needs to send someone the file I will put it there if he sends it to me. Shachar Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Yotam Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If a bandwidth oriented person is willing to host the packages, I'll create RPM's[0] for OO and its dependencies.

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Ely Levy
I'll be happy to host them on ftp.cs.huji.ac.il Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 14 May 2002, Yotam Rubin wrote: Greetings, I have successfully compiled OO with IBM's BiDi patches. A couple of screenshots are available at

OpenOffice BIDI Support

2002-05-14 Thread Barak Kaufman
Hi list i just installed the debs from iglu and i have to say that the support in the word application is great. my question is about the other apps (spreadhseet and presentation) is there any hebrew support planned for them ? is it just another patch or some procedure that has to be done with

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:41:12PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Ok, file is nearly there (still D/L, but I am hoping it will arrive real soon). http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/OpenOffice/ There should be two files there, both debs at the momen (that's all Yotam managed to make

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
From: Yotam Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:41:12PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Ok, file is nearly there (still D/L, but I am hoping it will arrive real soon). http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/OpenOffice/ There should be two files there, both debs at the momen

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Amir Sela
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 17:56, Yotam Rubin wrote: Producing the RPM is a trivial task, simply use alien. I am willing to do it myself on iglu.org.il, but it's only a couple of commands. If someone wants to create an SRPM, that would be ideal; I do not intend to create one. I'll create one,

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 17:56, Yotam Rubin wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:41:12PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Ok, file is nearly there (still D/L, but I am hoping it will arrive real soon). http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/OpenOffice/ Someone with writing premissions of the IGLU web

OpenOffice/bidi fonts problems

2002-05-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
special instructions? They were not in the documentation directory of the openoffice deb package. I could not figure out how to read and write Hebrew. I could see a list of Type1 fonts in the fonts menu (helvetica, times, bookman, etc.). What do I need to do to make it use my Hebrew fonts

Re: OpenOffice/bidi fonts problems

2002-05-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I could see a list of Type1 fonts in the fonts menu (helvetica, times, bookman, etc.). What do I need to do to make it use my Hebrew fonts? The fonts issue was due to the use of a fonts server (and a non-standard one: xfstt . Still left for historical

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 20:09, Sagi Bashari wrote: From: Yotam Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Producing the RPM is a trivial task, simply use alien. I am willing to do it myself on iglu.org.il, but it's only a couple of commands. If someone wants to create an SRPM, that would be ideal; I do not

debs for OpenOffice, take #2.

2002-05-14 Thread Yotam Rubin
Greetings, I was a little rash in releasing the debs too quickly. I have just finished creating the second revision of the package which includes a document about BiDi in OO from IBM. Hopefully it will be uploaded as soon as I get Mati's approval to include the document in the package.

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I think Tzafrir is asking whether your patch breaks compatibility with Open Office 1.0 file format, API, etc... Hetz On Monday 13 May 2002 00:14, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Any comments on the binary compatibility of existing OpenOffice builds? I don't understand what

Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
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

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, May 12, 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote about Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D: 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. That's

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Just one note On Sun, 12 May 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: 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. Glad to see you managed to get at least

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Cohen wrote: Just one note On Sun, 12 May 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: 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. Glad to see you managed to get

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 12 May 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm willing to do it, but I will only have the HW to do it in a few days (buying a new computer). Plus - I will be compiling on Debian, and I'm not sure how adapt Debian is at compiling RPMs. If anyone else with shorter timelines wants to

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 06:54:54PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm willing to do it, but I will only have the HW to do it in a few days (buying a new computer). Plus - I will be compiling on Debian, and I'm not sure how adapt Debian is at

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, May 12, 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D: I'm willing to do it, but I will only have the HW to do it in a few days (buying a new computer). Plus - I will be compiling on Debian, and I'm not sure how adapt Debian

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Moshe Zadka
timelines wants to volunteer, please do. a) Debian can compile, and install, RPMs just fine. apt-get install rpm alien b) There are Debian people working on OOo debs, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/ = To unsubscribe, send

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
? Does it add much overhead to the handling of non-Hebrew text? There is no real good reason. The guys at OpenOffice were very polite, but never committed to accept our code. They did not develop an alternative in timely fashion either. I suppose that if the code is well received by the Linux-il

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Any comments on the binary compatibility of existing OpenOffice builds? I don't understand what you ask. We are talking about creating a new build. Shalom (Regards), Mati Bidi Architect Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts

Re: how mature is openoffice ?

2002-03-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002, mulix wrote about Re: how mature is openoffice ?: ObSignal: any advice for a person who hates writing html but wants a convenient way to create a personal website? Read up on CSS (cascasding style sheets, w3.org has an excellent document about it), and do most

Re: how mature is openoffice ?

2002-03-01 Thread mulix
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:58:12AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2002, mulix wrote about Re: how mature is openoffice ?: ObSignal: any advice for a person who hates writing html but wants a convenient way to create a personal website? Read up on CSS (cascasding style sheets

Re: how mature is openoffice ?

2002-03-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2002, mulix wrote about Re: how mature is openoffice ?: ObSignal: any advice for a person who hates writing html but wants a convenient way to create a personal website? Read up on CSS (cascasding style sheets, w3.org has

how mature is openoffice ?

2002-02-28 Thread Erez Doron
how mature is openoffice ? regards erez. = 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: how mature is openoffice ?

2002-02-28 Thread mulix
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:07:55PM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: how mature is openoffice ? why dont *you* try it and tell *us*? not to mention that it's probably been discussed to death on this list already. i usually ignore all such threads, so i wouldn't really know. ObSignal: any advice

personal web site [was: Re: how mature is openoffice ?]

2002-02-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:07:55PM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: how mature is openoffice ? why dont *you* try it and tell *us*? not to mention that it's probably been discussed to death on this list already. i usually ignore all such threads, so i wouldn't

Re: personal web site [was: Re: how mature is openoffice ?]

2002-02-28 Thread mulix
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:43:27PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:07:55PM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: how mature is openoffice ? why dont *you* try it and tell *us*? not to mention that it's probably been discussed to death

Re: personal web site [was: Re: how mature is openoffice ?]

2002-02-28 Thread Sagi Bashari
If you only need basic HTML editing - Netscape composer and OpenOffice should both do the work pretty well. If you need something more advanced and/or you update your website alot then maybe you should use a content management system, such as Slashcode or PostNuke. Sagi ObSignal: any advice

Re: personal web site [was: Re: how mature is openoffice ?]

2002-02-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote: If you only need basic HTML editing - Netscape composer and OpenOffice should both do the work pretty well. If you need something more advanced and/or you update your website alot then maybe you should use a content management system

Re: personal web site [was: Re: how mature is openoffice ?]

2002-02-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
- Netscape composer and OpenOffice should both do the work pretty well. Note that they are good to produce one page, but not a small site of a number of pages. If you need something more advanced and/or you update your website alot then maybe you should use a content management system

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