RE: [OFFTOPIC] Sending CVs in "other formats" (was: Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew)

2002-01-19 Thread Tzahi Fadida
ECTED] Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Sending CVs in "other formats" (was: Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew) On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Dvir, > > I respect MR. Stallman opinion, but I still say he's lunatic and I really > don't care how much flames I

[OFFTOPIC] Sending CVs in "other formats" (was: Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew)

2002-01-19 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Dvir, > > I respect MR. Stallman opinion, but I still say he's lunatic and I really > don't care how much flames I'll get. I'm looking at the real world here in > Israel for example - I'm unmployeed and whenever I'm trying to send my CV as > a t

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-14 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
in my experience, TED reads English RTF, cheers, avraham >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/14/02 10:32am >>> Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about RTF? Let me repeat my question: what tools can read/write RTF (English) under Linux? StarOffice does, and KWord doesn't, AFAIK. Anything *bu

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now search freshmeat for more :) I wonder if this is worthwhile. You gave a rather long list of tools that don't do what I asked. Given that latex2rtf and rtf2latex don't work at all (last time I checked - a few months ago - their documentation even warn

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-14 Thread Ira Abramov
On 14 Jan 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > What about RTF? > > Let me repeat my question: what tools can read/write RTF (English) > under Linux? StarOffice does, and KWord doesn't, AFAIK. Anything *but* > SO? looks like more things convert to rather than from, but here's a short list I got you w

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about RTF? Let me repeat my question: what tools can read/write RTF (English) under Linux? StarOffice does, and KWord doesn't, AFAIK. Anything *but* SO? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Uri Bruck
Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > What about RTF? > > It generally takes more place (due to a very inefficient encoding of > hebrew. Something in the lines of quoted-printable) but it is readable by > any decent word processor (word95/7/0/xp

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: > Hi > > about stallman's article - as always, he's not a lunatic but an > idealist. Those terms don't necessarily contradict ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ==

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Dvir, > > I respect MR. Stallman opinion, but I still say he's lunatic and I really > don't care how much flames I'll get. I'm looking at the real world here in > Israel for example - I'm unmployeed and whenever I'm trying to send my CV as > a text,

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Dvir Volk
amo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 7:00 PM > To: Dvir Volk; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew > > > Hi Dvir, > > I respect MR. Stallman opinion, but I still say he's lunatic > and I really > don't ca

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Dvir, I respect MR. Stallman opinion, but I still say he's lunatic and I really don't care how much flames I'll get. I'm looking at the real world here in Israel for example - I'm unmployeed and whenever I'm trying to send my CV as a text, HTML or PDF I get shouts from the HR department tha

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Dvir Volk
> > and by the way, KWord can edit hebrew MSWord documents > rather decently. > > interesting. it seems like anything I try to load on it (not just > Hebrew) explodes, it's not even beta grade. does it save as > word at all? > because if it saves only as kword, it's not very useful for business

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002, Eli Marmor wrote about "Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew": > > > - does it import Hebrew winWord? > > > Answer: yes! > >.. > > And this specific feature, is the most important, at

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It opens the possibility that now that you can finally read Hebrew Word > files, some annoying Microsoft-addict will send you a Hebrew Powerpoint, > MS-Project, or whatever kind of file that you still cannot read ;) Or, as reported on /. recently, a Z

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Dvir Volk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and by the way, KWord can edit hebrew MSWord documents rather decently. I never managed as much as open Word documents (English) with KWord. If I did, I would not have bothered with StarOffice, most probably... Incidentally, what is the best Linux tool to

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: > Richard Stallman of GNU just published an interesting article on > newsforge on the subject, titled "We can put an end to Word > attachments". > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1711238&mode=thread > > and by the way, KWord can edit hebrew M

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > I always get people sending me emails with these kinds of formats. I try > to convince these people that the formats they are using are formats for > *editing*, and since I don't intend to edit the stuff they send me, they > should use some sort of hardc

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Dvir Volk
Richard Stallman of GNU just published an interesting article on newsforge on the subject, titled "We can put an end to Word attachments". http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1711238&mode=thread and by the way, KWord can edit hebrew MSWord documents rather decently. Dvir Volk Ed

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002, Eli Marmor wrote about "Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew": > > - does it import Hebrew winWord? > > Answer: yes! >.. > And this specific feature, is the most important, at least in my humble > opinion. Just think about the possibilities that

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Eli Marmor
Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > - does it import Hebrew winWord? > Answer: yes! I think IBM deserves a big "Shkoyech" (cheers? thanks?) for the whole project, even without this critical feature. And this specific feature, is the most important, at least in my humble opinion. Just think about the po

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-11 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
IBM Israel Phone: +972 2 5870999 ext. 1202Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52 554160 To:Matitiahu Allouche/Israel/IBM@IBMIL, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew 2 more questions: 1. fonts: Do I need to have my fonts fr

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
2 more questions: 1. fonts: Do I need to have my fonts from my Windows partition or does IBM contributes some fonts? 2. which Hebrew word files does it imports currently? Office 97, 2K and XP? are there any known problems in the filters? Thanks, Hetz =

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-10 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
I am not sure what I am allowed to say before the legal patrol comes to arrest me. Anyway, as long as it (or I) last... Ira Abramov asked: - is it for Open Office or just the commercial StarOffice? Answer: OpenOffice - does it import Hebrew winWord? Answer: yes! - is the support only for the

StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-10 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > employees. The distribution outside IBM is currently on hold until some > legal points (copyrights etc...) are solved. I don't know when this will > happen. Brothers and sisters, join me in a silent prayer... well, if we can't have the program,