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Re: Paragraph indentation suppression


From: Simon Law
Subject: Re: Paragraph indentation suppression
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:44:49 -0400
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:25:17PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:37:45 +0200
> > From: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Would you prefer the Hebrew translation of Bison or GCC manual, if it was
> > available?
> 
> Not really on-topic in this forum, but _I_ would.  Unfortunately, the
> number of people who can write good technical Hebrew _and_ understand
> Bison/GCC enough to produce a good translation is very small (see the
> list of people in the `he' team of the Translation Project, as an
> evidence).  I expect the situation to be better for other languages,
> though, especially in cultures with strong tendency to do everything
> in their native language, which makes people there much less exposed
> to English than we are here in Israel.  Germany and Russia are two
> examples that come to mind.
> 
> In any case, please don't underestimate the importance of
> native-language literature about computer software, or technical
> matters in general.  I, for one, would be delighted to be able to
> write Hebrew documents in Texinfo.  (Yes, I know that this requires
> solutions to many hard problems, like a support of bidirectional
> editing in Emacs, bidi-aware TeX and DVI pograms, etc.)  On my daytime
> job, I make a point of writing everything beyond short memos in
> Texinfo (and cause my Word-infected colleagues to turn green with envy
> when they see the results in print), so I hate to admit I cannot do
> that in Hebrew.

        Have you tried using Hebrew LaTeX?  I heard that it works
acceptably, and is considered to be stable.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ivritex/

Simon




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