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On 30-Jul-98 Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
>> > r-to-l support to X-Windows is not possible without significant changes
>> > and additions to X-Windows protocol.
>> Eli Marmor does it for a living. not at the X protocol's level, but at the
>> level of the MOTIF library. he can do it for LessTiff if he had the
>> funding I suppose.
>
> Will the hypothetic sponsor then release the source? Will Eli permit it?
> Doesn't Lesstif has GNU license, which inhibits proprietary works based on
> it? Though maybe if it doesn't require Lesstif modification, it may still
> be possible. Theoretically.
In all of Israel, the land of Word Processors, only one
man knows how to program Hebrew support in Unix, this is a very sad fact.
We can't drag Eli to all discussions about Hebrew support, Eli CAN NOT write
code for LessTiff. He is contaminated by the Motif Code, his code if he ever
write it, will never make it to the LessTiff source tree!
After sinking himself so dip in Motif code I am not sure he can write a GNU gui
library that can be used safely legally.
So, you got his Hebrew fonts, what more can you ask from him?
GTK & QT are planed to have support for r-to-l, let's hope it will
be better then motif 2.1.
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E-Mail: Gal Goldschmidt <gal@eliashim.co.il>
Date: 30-Jul-98
Time: 10:09:54
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