Re: help with mlterm
On 23:18 Sun 25 Jan , David Purton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get mlterm to work in the way I want for a mixed Hebrew
> and English environment.
I am interested in using hebrew as well. You seem much more advanced than I, can I ask you some questions?
I am still at a beginning level. I have difficulty using my usual tools.
I use emacs usually. Unfortunately
emacs only shows me 'square boxes' when i open a file with hebrew in it.
If however i do
emacs -nw hebrew-file
then it will open with hebrew text displayed (backwards :().
if i open emacs -fn heb10x20 hebrew-file i get
No fonts match `heb10x20'
emacs -fn heb8x13 hebrew-file
it will display hebrew text (backwards of course) and not right justified like in gedit and kedit.
I have been using gedit and kedit which seem to work, but they are not my choice editors...
I see that you advocate xetex.
Can you describe what you do to set your favorite hebrew writing environment?
I see that Tzafrir likes vim. What do you think?
Any good hints on using xetex?
How do you do vowels?
thanks,
Mitchell
>
> These are the things that annoy me in no particular order:
>
> - Is it possible to completely disable bold fonts like in
> gnome-terminal? I am using anti aliased fonts and have fiddled
> endlessly with settings in ~/.mlterm/aafonts, but without success.
>
> - I would prefer to use SBL Hebrew as my font and put mlterm in variable
> width mode, but the vowel pointings seem to be shifted to the left.
>
> - A line starts in right or left mode based on the first character. Is
> there anyway to control this? My application should always work left
> to right and just insert Hebrew in right to left mode, but sometimes
> the lines start with Hebrew.
>
> Can anyone suggest solutions to these?
>
> cheers
>
> dc
>
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> David Purton
> dcpurton@marshwiggle.net
>
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