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I just got a disk from my father, in Israel, which contains version
2.1 of a new Hebrew/English text editor called QTEXT. As near as I
can tell (and as reported in the current HUG newsletter) this is a
FREE text editor written by an Israeli kibbutznik. It has some of the
limitations of a text editor vs. a full-blown word processor, but it
also has some unusual strengths. For starters, it appears to be
bug-free and to perform within the limits of what it claims to be able
to do, flawlessly. Following are some of the notes I made as I
experimented with the document tonight (the notes are written using
QTEXT).
As a text editor, all files are stored in ASCII. As you enter the
editor, you get a message "2039 lines remaining", which presumably
sets an upper limit on document size. Frankly, if you need more space
than that, you probably want a full-fledged word processor like
Multi-Lingual Scholar or WordMill.
If you are going to use this for Hebrew, you will need either
a Hebrew chip, or Hebrew EGA/VGA char set.
There is word wrap, but once a line wraps, the line ending is
treated as a hard line ending, and does not rewrap upon editing.
Inserting and deleting lines follow the WordStar standard: ^Y and
^N, respectively, but the bold and underline codes are different.
There is an entire manual on disk, but in Hebrew. If you are not
facile with Hebrew, there is a quite adequate "quick help"
facility, which may also be printed out.
There are all of the traditional block features, including one
that is not seen so frequently--lower/upper case the block. You can
even print a block. The program also supports headers and footers,
although I didn't experiment.
I'm not sure what printers are supported. Mine doesn't know from
Hebrew, so it was a poor choice for experimenting. My suspicion is
that printing is done by treating your printer as a standard, plain
vanilla DOS printer.
The Hebrew function works perfectly--not only does the Hebrew begin
inserting itself at the current cursor position and flow
properly, but when you switch back to English, your cursor
position is quite correct. You can also remap the keyboard. ("font
assignment")
You can access two documents at a time, but interestingly, there
is no feature to view your directory. I used PC-Tools, which is
always memory resident on my computer, to look for files. At the
same time, unlike many low-end word processors, this program has
no trouble accessing files from different subdirectories.