Subject: Re: BiDi?
From: Jared Davis (abiword@aiksaurus.com)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 13:26:25 CST
Mark--
I'm going to go ahead and copy your question to the developer's mailing list
and see if anyone knows the answer. I don't personally work with the BiDi
stuff but know that it's still around.
Developers--
What is the state of BIDI? I remember a discussion about making the BIDI
build the default build for win32... how has this come along? Is there a
convenient way for end users to get a BiDi-enabled package?
Thanks,
Jared
On Thursday 01 November 2001 11:27 am, Mark Gruenebaum wrote:
> Sir/Madam,
>
> A short time ago someone suggested to me your product for bi-directional
> word processing. I use Hebrew-English quite often, as well as many of my
> friends and relatives. At the time, there where some problems with the
> BiDi version of the WP, principally that it did not have a keyboard
> driver to get the Hebrew fonts when typing from right to left and the
> screen artifacts that would show up after backspacing.
>
> Now I don't see the bi-directional product at all on your site, although
> Hebrew is still listed as a supported language. I believe I have a
> work-around for the problems that originally bothered me and am very
> interested in trying it. Could you please let me know how to get it?
>
> (I also happen to be a UNIX programmer, although I have never done MOTIF
> or other GUI related programming. I work in the telecommunications
> industry. Still, it would be interesting to see the source code.)
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Mark Gruenebaum
> mailto:mbgruenebaum@netscape.net
> mailto:mgruenebaum@att.com
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