riddle@emory.UUCP (Larry Riddle) (05/15/86)
I am posting this for a friend in the language department.
He just received a copy of the SuperHebrew fonts for using
with Macwrite. The documentation talks about a right to left
desk accesory (i.e. allows you to type from the right side to the
left side, particularly important when doing Hebrew).
Unfortunately, this DA was not included and a phone call to the
distributor of the SuperHebrew program revealed that the DA had
been full of probrems and had been withdrawn for further research.
Does anyone know of any applications or DA's that allow right to
left word processing and that are known to work? My friend's
Hebrew fonts are no good to him without this capability (unless
he writes everything out first and then types it in "backward")
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Larry Riddle
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322
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riddle.emory@csnet-relay ARPANET6036792@pucc.BITNET (Kenneth Menken) (05/18/86)
>He just received a copy of the SuperHebrew fonts for using >with Macwrite. The documentation talks about a right to left >desk accesory (i.e. allows you to type from the right side to the >left side, particularly important when doing Hebrew). Someone recently phoned me recently asking for help converting exactly this sort of DA to work on a MAC+ (she had it working fine on a 512). Unfortunately, following the phone call she never showed up in person with the program. So as far as I know, she doesn't have it on a Mac+ yet, and I don't have it at all. Anyone wanting more information should send me mail... maybe I'll get something soon. The Davka corporation of Chicago produces a word processing program that goes in both directions, in the same file, or even in the same paragraph. It's $199, $149 for education-type people. Maybe it's worth it? Ken Menken Princeton U. Few universities have ever cared about (much less agreed with) the views expressed by their students.
oster@ucblapis.UUCP (05/21/86)
I've got MacInHebrew, the right to left / left to write typing system, and its associated Hebrew fonts running on my MacPlus. If you send me a disk and a self-addressed mailer, I will send you a copy. MacInHebrew is shareware, and I am not the author. If you like it, you should definiately send the author his money - it is good karma to support the shareware concept. Mail address: David Oster, Mosaic Codes, 2000 Center St. Suite 1036, Berkeley, Ca. 94704