Re: TAU website and information

2002-10-13 Thread Yaron Zabary
TAU students which apply for an account on CC servers (zoot and comfy) may use the doc2ps program in order to convert doc files to PS and then view them on a PS viewer (or even further use ps2pdf and use Acrobat). This is a bit awkward, but it works. -- Yaron. ===

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Eliran wrote: > Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > > >Actually, I can usually see hebrew with lynx (for instance, > >www.walla.co.il). Of course, you need hebrew fonts for your xterm. I > >could even see hebrew in tau's home page, though there were some other > >problems there. > > > >M

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-28 Thread Eliran
Moshe Kaminsky wrote: >Actually, I can usually see hebrew with lynx (for instance, >www.walla.co.il). Of course, you need hebrew fonts for your xterm. I >could even see hebrew in tau's home page, though there were some other >problems there. > >Moshe > XTerm... lynx was built mainly for console I

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/09/02 18:22]: [snip] > > Browsers that support it: > > * Explorer, as of ~4.0 or 5.0 in a more decent manner > * mozilla, as of around 0.9.1 (Netscape 6.1 ?, galeon, chmera, k-meleon, > etc.) > * konqueror, as of ~2.0 > * the upcoming opera 7? > > Brows

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Ariel Biener
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Eliran wrote: I have forwarded the original post to our webmaster. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html = To unsubscribe, send mail t

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 27 Sep 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I checked the Life Sciences yedion this morning, when I saw the > OP. There are little PDF icons next to Word icons, but some of them > are disabled (no PDF version, I presume?), and others complain about > fonts and refuse to render. I didn't spend too mu

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > > >>2. Is there an alternative I can offer? Is there at all such a thing as > >>HTML compliant Hebrew webpage which is displayed properly by all > >>browsers? Is there a format which can contain Hebrew and is supported by > >>various application

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Eliran wrote: > > > > 4. What options do I personally have? I *do* need access to that > > > information but I do not have MS Office and have no intention of > > > either pirating or buying it (or installing it on my computer, even

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
>>Email who? The guys who make the website? They're not likely to care, >>having designed and put up such horror. >>University officials? Do you know anyone specific who might care and have >>the power to do something about it? > >Yes the guys who make the site. Check with other students if the

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Eliran
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Email who? The guys who make the website? They're not likely to care, > having designed and put up such horror. > University officials? Do you know anyone specific who might care and > have the power to do something about it? Yes the guys who make the site. Check

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
>Hmm, openoffice, koffice, abiword, staroffice etc... Also try to ask them >if they got HTML versions.. I can ask them, but if they had HTML (or PDF) versions, surely they would put them up on the website... no? Alexander Maryanovsky. At 15:50 27.09.2002 +0200, Eliran wrote: >Alexander Mary

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
>>My questions are: >>1. Is there any point in trying to fight this? If so, how? > >Email perhaps ? Email who? The guys who make the website? They're not likely to care, having designed and put up such horror. University officials? Do you know anyone specific who might care and have the power

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Eliran wrote: > > 4. What options do I personally have? I *do* need access to that > > information but I do not have MS Office and have no intention of > > either pirating or buying it (or installing it on my computer, even if > > I had a license). I'm also planning to move c

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Eliran
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > My questions are: > 1. Is there any point in trying to fight this? If so, how? Email perhaps ? > > 2. Is there an alternative I can offer? Is there at all such a thing > as HTML compliant Hebrew webpage which is displayed properly by all > browsers? Is there a f

TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
Hi, I'm starting my first year at TAU (Tel Aviv University) this year. I recently got mail regarding my faculty's website, that it contains vital information etc. etc. I was not particularly surprised to see that the website is: A. Horrible - Has a weird green border around the page (what happen