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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 14:46:47 IST
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- From: "Itamar Even-Zohar, Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM>
- Subject: Re: Shapirit to Lingua
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- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 23 Jul 92 14:14:00 IST from <KPUOZ@HUJIVM1>
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- To get a Shapirit Hebrew file into NBLINGUA use the
- command CALL/H. This will keep the ASCII characters
- as they are, rather than convert them to 3 bytes
- combinations -- NBLINGUA ingenious and dubious
- innovation. However, Roman character strings will
- appear in the wrong direction, because NBLINGUA
- (the beta version I have, an old February 1992)
- converts every MDHN to MDNM, without checking whether
- it should not be converted instead to LA4 (with or without
- "mdnm").
-
- I began some time ago to write an XPL pgm to cure this
- irritating outcome, but I then decided to wait. Perhaps the
- final version WILL after all sense this trouble.
- (I wish, however, someone from NBI asked me about it;
- but there is little interest for the moment in the
- specifics of Hebrew users.)
-
- Sometimes the CALL/H command does not work. You must then
- call the file in Shapirit, enter "LA4" before "LR0" in
- the expanded mode, save the file under a different name,
- then load NBLINGUA and call this file.
-
- Whether you use the CALL/H command successfully, or must
- use the other way, NEVER SAVE THE ORIGINAL FILE WHILE WORKING
- IN NBLINGUA! This can cause lots of trouble if you then wish
- to edit it with Shapirit.
-
- Finally, all of the above applies to NB 3.1, too (if by miracle
- you managed to get the evaporized semi-version once distributed
- here and there).
-
- Itamar Even-Zohar
-
-
- For those of you who need Hebrew with full vocalization,
- or fancy accents, with a Laser printer you will be able to
- print incredibly beautiful texts. As for wordprocessing
- etc. itself, I am still waiting to see if we are not
- regressing rather than advancing.
-