Re: "G-d"/Yiddish word processing

[WINSTON WEILHEIMER <nusach...>]

davka writer is probably what you are looking for....http://www.davka.com

winston


>From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: "G-d"/Yiddish word processing
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:33:50 -0500
>
> >Okay, I need another bit of help.  For those of you who type Yiddish and
> >have done so for lyrics on an "album", what program have you used?  I
> >haven't found anything easy enough for me to use that has all the
> >Yiddish characters needed.  Any suggestions from you wonderful crew?
>
>The short answer is that there isn't an easy answer. There are no good 
>typesetting programs that are generally available which also support 
>Hebrew-alphabet languages, including vowels and typing in logical order. 
>Although Unicode support is coming, my understanding is that there are also 
>generally no font encoding/keyboard mapping choices, either, so whatever 
>solution you find, is likely to be useful only within its own world.
>
>Depending on which computer you are using (Linux, Mac, Windows, most 
>generally), there are solutions that may well be good enough for your 
>effort. This is where a consult of the good folks at the Yiddish 
>Information Processing list might be helpful--see http://www.yv.org/uyip/ 
>for some FAQs and general info on the mailing list.
>
>I've just written a filter to take some stuff written in Word using some 
>old Yiddish fonts, and make it work on a Mac with Israeli 
>encodings+Yiddish, but that's entirely custom work, and the type is 
>actually stored in display order, rather than logical order (which doesn't 
>matter--we're displaying this, and it's already been edited all that needs 
>to be). It's often that painful if you're not working on a dedicated 
>typesetting system, =and= need better than word-processed text.
>
>Whatever you do, do line up the Latin- and Hebrew-alphabet stuff so that it 
>relates.
>
>ari
>
>
>Ari Davidow
>ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
>
>

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