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Conference taveng::bagels

Title:BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest
Notice:1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration
Moderator:SMURF::FENSTER
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1524
Total number of notes:18709

588.0. "English/Hebrew IBM PC software needed" by DELNI::SCHULTZ (Marc Schultz (DTN)226-5062 @LKG2-1/S3) Wed Nov 23 1988 14:08

    Its Chanukah time and I'm starting to think about Passover.  I've
    always wanted to put together a haggadah (sp?).  Does anyone have
    or know of an easy to use wordprocessor that will integrate English
    and Hebrew?  In the IBM notesfile someone mentioned Wordperfect
    has the capablity.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
    					Marc
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588.1see also 308, 390, 452VINO::WEINERSamWed Nov 23 1988 21:159
    One that has been around for a while, though I have no knowledge
    of how good it is, is from GAMMA Productions, 70 Wilshire Blvd,
    Suite 609, Santa Monica CA 90401, tel: 213-394-8622.  Cost according
    to an ad in BYTE, $355, add $150 for laser support, $19 demo, 30
    day guarantee.
    
    This is just the first product I came across in picking up the handiest
    magazine.  Try looking at the small ads in back.
588.2 Gamma: Multi-Lingual Scholar (TM) MUNCSS::AJKAnton J. Kuchelmeister, MUNCSS::AJKMon Nov 28 1988 01:4343
    The correct address is:
    
    		Gamma Productions, Inc.
    		710 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 609
    		Santa Monica, CA 90401
    		USA
    
    		Tel: (213) 394-8622
                           
    They have dealers "world wide", e.g. in Massachusetts:
    
    			Ibrahim & Ibrahim                     
    			Sinote Ibrahim
    			165 Friend Street
    			Boston, MA 02114
    			USA
    
    			Tel: (617) 723-9766
    
    and in Israel:
    			Eliashim Microcomputers
    			Eli Gamush
    			2 Koresh Street
    			P.O. Box 8691
    			Haifa 31-086
    
    			Tel. (972) 452-3601
    
    Their product is called "Multi-Lingual Scholar (TM)".
    
    It includes 5 alphabets: Roman (for English, European and Scandinavian
    languages), Arabic/Farsi, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Greek. It requires: IBM
    PC/XT/AT, PS/2 or compatible, 640K, graphics (Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA),
    IBM compatible parallel port. Epson, IBM graphics, Toshiba, NEC,
    Okidata and compatible 9- and 24-pin printers (parallel port printing
    only). 
                                                            
    They also have biblical texts on diskette, e.g. Hebrew Bible,
    Michigan-Claremont full BHS text (10 disks), for $50.00  -
    
    I do not know any of their products by personal experience. I do not
    have any affiliation nor specific interests in any of the firms
    mentioned.
588.3Ask them who know!SUTRA::LEHKYI'm phlegmatic, and that's coolMon Nov 28 1988 09:427
    Also, you may wish to contact Aaron Goldman in DEC's TAV office (I
    think he's on TAVENG::). He should know of any DEC-supported
    'Hebrew/English-speaking' word procecessor, even for IBM's.
    
    Pointingly yours,
    
    Chris
588.4THUNDR::MINOWRepent! Godot is coming soon! Repent!Mon Nov 28 1988 12:4211
Dec Israel has a version of TPU that supports Hebrew.  I have a
semi-working version of microemacs that might also be made to work
(I was interested in the problem of dynamic mixtures of left-right
and right-left text, but didn't plan on building a full-scale word
processor.  My stuff runs on Atari ST's, and VMS (with a terminal
that supports the down-loadable character set), and could be made
to work on Ultrix without too much difficulty.  Making it work on
a PC would require dealing with the character set.  You can have
the sources, but I won't offer *any* help making it work.)

Martin.