Am Freitag, 8. September 2006 20:09 schrieb Guy Rutenberg: > hi, > > 1) LyX works for pretty good in hebrew in version 1.4.1 (i haven't tested it > yet on 1.4.3 and 1.5) but many hebrew users complain that it's pretty hard > configuring LyX for use with hebrew (especialy keyboards as LyX doesn't use > for some reason the keyboard layouts of the Xserver). There some more > problems with hebrew (mostly gui stuff where hebrew is display as gibrrish) > which I guess will be fixed when lyx moves to Unicode (as i understood it > should happen in lyx 1.5).
It is the goal to fix these problems, yes. Unfortunately none of the current developers knows right-to-left languages such as hebrew well enough. Therefore we will need some help. It would be nice if you could try out 1.5 after the basic unicode stuff is finished, and report problems. > 2) I didn't talk about the localization of the gui (but i think i will take > a look it to see if i can help). I want to help translating the LyX > documantation which comes with every lyx installation such as the user-guide > and etc. I see two existing hebrew documents: he_Intro.lyx and he_Tutorial.lyx. I guess it would be a good idea to start with these and update them to match the english version. Then you can translate the other documents (big task). Unfortunately there is no automatic procedure like gettext for that, you have to go through the documents side by side. I suggest that you work on the 1.4 version, since 1.5 is pretty much broken right now, and the documentation is still almost identical. Since you already contacted the former translator you can simply work right away. Please send the updated documents to the list (zipped if they are too big), we'll put them into the official sources then. Before you start, please send a message to the list stating that you give permission to licence your contributions to LyX under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Otherwise we won't be able to include your work. Georg PS: Jean-Marc, please correct me if I said anything wrong WRT 1.4.
