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Re: wrote hebrew general FAQ



On Sun, Dec 12, 1999, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: wrote hebrew general FAQ":
> not true we have here both emacs and vi writing and reading documants in
> hebrew and even have limited printing option (soon to come our hebrew
> page;)
> 
> Ely Levy
> 
> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> 
>...
> |  Right now, postscript (or pdf) files are the only portable way we have
> |  of seeing Hebrew documents. Of course, it's only for seeing documents, not
> |  editing them, but it's an important first step.

Look again at what you wrote: "we have HERE both emacs and vi...". Is this
what you call PORTABLE? If you send your output to some Joe running out-of-
the-box Redhat distribution, do you think he'll be able to view them? Telling
him to "get this-and-that software, run xterm -fn heb8x13, click M-x
show-me-this-file-in-Hebrew in emacs..." is a chicken and egg problem if
your document is an introduction to Linux :)

So, until we have an out-of-the-box Hebrew distribution (this is what Ivrix
hopes to be), if you want your documents to be viewable by *anybody*, you'll
need to pick a format like Postscript or PDF that is viewable by *anybody*.
Of course, it doesn't matter how you create these files: I'll use Hebrew
Latex 2.09, You'll use MS-Word, or whatever, until one program is good
enough to get the attention of all Hebrew writers. Of course, it's always
best to have your documents in multiple formats, and let your users choose.
The US DOJ keeps the (interim) judgement against MS on their site in
Word-Perfect format - I wonder why not MS-Word :)

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