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Re: hebrew word processor



Congratulations of your first version Matan,

Just a small Note - Intel has registered Timna name - for one of their
newer processors which is being developed right now.., so I guess you
don't want problems with Intel

FYI

Hetz

Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am happy to announce the release of timna-0.0.1, the first public
> release of my word processor.
> Available at http://www.arava.co.il/matan/hebrew/timna-0.0.1.tar.gz
> (Please note that there are some problems with the server, so if the
> download stops somewhere between 60K-100K, just use wget or any other
> tool for continuing the download).
> 
> It is still very much featureless, and lacks almost any documentation,
> but is enough, in my opinion, to be the current tool of choice for
> "writing a letter to the bank". (If you can do that without underlining,
> and fully justified lines, just to name two missing features).
> 
> It is also very buggy, but should be enough to get through a simple
> letter (especially if no spurious keys are pressed).
> 
> To compile it, first install fribidi-0.1.8, and then type make.
> The svgalib version will be src/timna and the x version will be
> src/timna.x. Now put some hebrew fonts (must have both hebrew and latin
> letters in the same font. From windows fonts, the usable fonts are
> arial, courier, times, aharoni, david, frankruehl, miriam) in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/ and run the program.
> 
> Please tell me of any bugs you find, or features you would like to see.
> Patches are also welcome.
> 
> --
> Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org
> 
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