Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012, Avraham Rosenberg wrote about "xfig+Hebrew": > Dear all >In an attempt to use xfig with Hebrew text, I started it with: > xfig -international -geometry 1500x990+0+0 -metric -showlengths > -startgridmode 1 -free 5 ???-specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.

2012-04-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:20:21 +0300 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed > maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.": > > > That's great. I have fond memories of these "mod" songs, which were "the > > > thing" in the early 90s, before storing

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-15 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Thank very much Guy, Shlomi and Nadav for their answers. I was very pleasantly surprized by Open Office draw, which is, probably the way I will go. The UTF8 capability of inkscape seems to be an afterthought. It it very inconvenient to use it for more that adding a couple of characters.

[HAIFUX LECTURE][WEEK NOTICE] Modern Web Development in Perl - Gabor Szabo

2012-04-15 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Note change of time AND place: Next week, Monday 23rd (and NOT today), we will meet in Taub 3 (and NOT 6) to hear Gabor Szabo talk about: Modern Web Development in Perl Abstract Back in the early years of the dynamic web, Perl was the de-facto choice of language. It was so ubique that people as

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-15 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Good you solved the problem, but regarding inkscape I have to disagree. Inkscape is using pango as font layout engine, which is as good as any of the top font layout engines available (uniscribe, qt, OsX). It had problems in the past if you used old fonts without advanced opentype tables, but that

Re: Dtt dongle

2012-04-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Apr 5, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Erez D wrote: I'm looking for a cheap dtt dongle supported by Linux. Any luck? Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 In 1969 the US could put a man on the moon, now teenagers just howl at it. :-( ___