Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/06 01:38, Eran Tromer wrote: 2. a. During text input, use heuristics to produce an encoding that's rendered as desired. In the case of hebrew+minus+digit, instead of a plain HYPHEN-MINUS insert some appropriate Unicode sequences such as RLE+(HYPHEN-MINUS)+PDF or RLE+(NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/04 13:44, Eran Tromer wrote: OOe 1.1 seems to have the usual hebrew-hyphen-number problem ("H-5" renders as "H5-"), which necessitates typing of the logically incorrect "H5-" and causes bad importing of newer MS Word documents. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19848

Re: linux support for following webcams

2003-10-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
The only place I can recommend you to check: The ov511 driver in the kernel, and it's documentation, and the web page, that can be reached from documentation. b On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Arie Folger wrote: > are the following webcams supported under linux? Note that I googled but found > nothing on t

Re: linux support for following webcams

2003-10-05 Thread Meir Kriheli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:45, Arie Folger wrote: > are the following webcams supported under linux? Note that I googled but > found nothing on these models: > > * Logitech QuickCam Express USB W32 > * Labtec Webcam USB > > I have no idea what kind o

Re: beta.linux.org.il

2003-10-05 Thread Alon Altman
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > The in-running new web site for linux.org.il is at > http://beta.linux.org.il. Flames and congrats should go to Ilya. Please > help us with constructive critisim. > > The purpose of this site is not so much to set up a new content site, > bu

Re: beta.linux.org.il

2003-10-05 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > The IGLU page is horribly, and possibly irricoverably, out of date. It's > best to start over. like I wrote at an earlier date on Linux-IL - I am > looking for someone to handle the administrative part, as I have a > conflict of interests here. I think

Re: beta.linux.org.il

2003-10-05 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > The in-running new web site for linux.org.il is at > http://beta.linux.org.il. Flames and congrats should go to Ilya. Please > help us with constructive critisim. > > The purpose of this site is not so much to set up a new content site, > bu

Re: beta.linux.org.il

2003-10-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orna Agmon wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, The in-running new web site for linux.org.il is at http://beta.linux.org.il. Flames and congrats should go to Ilya. Please help us with constructive critisim. The purpose of this site is not so much to set up a new content s

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread John Rabkin
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:30:43AM +0200, Arie Folger wrote: > Is it possible to set paragraph direction when in a non Hebrew locale? (ie., > when in LOCALE en_US, even when I force OOwriter to display the paragraph > direction button, it is grayed out. When I start OO in a Hebrew locale, it > d

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote on 2003-10-04: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: It is not a bug. It a feature (standard conformance). Well, maybe it's a feature of OpenOffice. It's still a bug in the standard. But what about the cases when you do want a negative number?

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Tzafrir Cohen wrote on 2003-10-04: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Eran Tromer wrote: > > > On 2003/10/03 19:44, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > > > > OOe 1.1 seems to have the usual hebrew-hyphen-number problem > > ("H-5" renders as "H5-"), which necessitates typing of the logically > > incorrect "H5-" and

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Shachar Shemesh wrote on 2003-10-04: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >It is not a bug. It a feature (standard conformance). > > > Well, maybe it's a feature of OpenOffice. It's still a bug in the standard. > But what about the cases when you do want a negative number? > Being as it is that there is no

linux support for following webcams

2003-10-05 Thread Arie Folger
are the following webcams supported under linux? Note that I googled but found nothing on these models: * Logitech QuickCam Express USB W32 * Labtec Webcam USB I have no idea what kind of chipsets are in there, and do not have the option of trying before I buy. Thanks for the tips, Arie --

More persistant PPP -- on Debian

2003-10-05 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Hi guys, pppd's persist and maxfail options didn't work very well for me on my broadband connection. It seems to me that it finishes the 'pty' program and doesn't try to restart it so it can't retry the connection... Here's an elegant solution (ie. not a cron job checking the connection every 5 m

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Saturday, Oct 4, 2003, at 15:01 Asia/Jerusalem, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm not sure how to tackle this particular problem. I think the best place to fix it would be at the root of the problem - the Unicode BiDi algorithm. I *think* I have a reasonably portable solution to this issue. I

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Arie Folger wrote: Is it possible to set paragraph direction when in a non Hebrew locale? (i.e., when in LOCALE en_US, even when I force OOwriter to display the paragraph direction button, it is grayed out. When I start OO in a Hebrew locale, it defaults all paragraphs to RTL, which is not what

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Arie Folger
Is it possible to set paragraph direction when in a non Hebrew locale? (i.e., when in LOCALE en_US, even when I force OOwriter to display the paragraph direction button, it is grayed out. When I start OO in a Hebrew locale, it defaults all paragraphs to RTL, which is not what I want.) Arie --