hola all, i'm an american trying to brush up on hebrew. other than temple, the last time i spoke or wrote hebrew was back in my apple ][ days. ;)
i'm running debian testing, but have some packages like pango and abiword pinned to unstable. been playing around with abiword. found the "shalom" font, which looks nice. there's also another abiword font "ktav yad", but it doesn't show up. the cursor moves over like a character is being placed, but the font isn't actually rendered. i assume that ktav yad is a hebrew font -- doesn't it mean "writing hand"? * any ideas on why ktav yad isn't displaying at all? also, the shalom font is nice, but i've spent the past hours trying to map out the keystrokes. the consonants were easy, but the vowels are a nightmare. sometimes a vowel comes with a consonant (shift-a is an aleph with a patach) and sometimes you type a keystroke after the consonant (like typing y shift-e produces a yud with a segol). the rules for deleting or changing or deleting a vowel or the consonant above a vowel is pretty arcane. this is taking much longer than it should, and i'd think all this would be documented somewhere. google turned up nothing useful. * has anyone mapped this font or know where i can find info on it? * is there a word processor with better hebrew support than abiword? my main word processor is vim. on debian testing: $ vim -H E26: Hebrew cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time of course i can recompile vim for my system, but i'd rather not if i don't have to. * any debian users who know how to get hebrew support for vim "out of the box"? i assume once i get vim displaying hebrew, hebrew with latex will be less painful... sorry for the long post, but i'd rather be spending time learning hebrew rather than fiddling with tools. i'm feeling like of lost here. thanks! pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
