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Re: LyX Word Processor? (fwd)
on second thought, maybe this guy is a loony, and I really DON'T want to
follow the thread anymore... he just wished me that god will "send back
evil my way".
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 19:49:52 GMT
From: root <root@TAILOR.ALEIM.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list IL-BOARD <IL-BOARD@taunivm.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Re: LyX Word Processor?
Newsgroups: israel.listserv.il-board
On 27 Nov 1996 06:52:44 -0000, Micky Kendler <jmicky@SHANI.NET> wrote:
>Ira Abramov wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, root wrote:
>>
>> > The LyX Linux/BSD word processor project is operating without
>> > any Hebrew or Arabic collaboration. If you get LyX and the
>> > latest xforms library and run it on your Linux/XFree86 box,
>> > you will notice that LyX has a considerable list of languages
>> > supported, but no Hebrew? Deliberate anti-Semitism? Or laziness
>> > on the part of Linux people in Israel?
>>
>> Hebrew editing has a lot of problems, what with reversing and pushing the
>> text, read more at www.elmar.co.il if you want. I don't know if there is
>> any one individual with enough time and resources to take on this project
That is a lot of nonsense, and you know it.
> Although I agree with Ira about the complicate problem of hebrew
>support for UNIX systems as a whole, this is EXACTLY what will happen to
>EVERY operating system or application, with no commercial interest.
Aren't you the one who was grousing about noone paying programmers to
work? Well, I think it is a good idea, and I'd like to see people
like you put out onto the streets begging for their bread.
May God send your evil back on you as well.
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