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Hebrew Text Support for Efax
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Aug 20 02:00:28 1995
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 23:20:31 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Avner Lottem <lottem@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Subject: Hebrew Text Support for Efax
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Keywords: fax efax Hebrew reverse
Hi,
Follows a description of a small support to efax for faxing Hebrew TEXT
files.
Enjoy,
Avner
----- Part of the README
Hebrew Text Support for Efax
----------------------------
Avner Lottem, lottem@techunix.technion.ac.il, August 1995.
Efax, written by Ed Casas, is an elegant fax program used to prepare,
transmit and receive faxes. A fax input file to the efax package can
be text, PostScript or portable bitmap (PBM) format.
A Hebrew PostScript file is created using heavy packages, such as TeX--XeT,
troffh and alike, and does not need any support from the fax program.
A Hebrew text file, on the other hand, is not compatible with the efax
utilities for the following reasons:
o Efix, the program that converts text to fax, uses a PBM font.
Hebrew files need a font that includes the Hebrew characters.
o Hebrew files are right-to-left oriented, so a transformation
that reverses the lines before efix is necessary.
Though it is possible to fax PostScript Hebrew documents, not always
is it the most convenient way. Sometimes a person would like to write a
small text file and submit it as is, without having to run any document
formatting program.
Related packages
----------------
o vim3.0-rlh0.1.tgz, a very small patch to vim 3.0, enables Hebrew
editing of files with vim. The only requirement for this patch
is a terminal with an 8 bit clean Hebrew font.
o hebxfonts-0.1.tgz is a collection of X fonts that can be used with Hebrew
vim.
Please send your comments, suggestions and bug reports to:
Avner Lottem
E-mail: lottem@techunix.technion.ac.il
Phone: +972-4-307322
----- LSM Entry
Begin3
Title: Hebrew Text Support for Efax
Version: 0.1
Entered-date: 18-August-1995
Description: A Hebrew PBM font and an improved rev(1) program, along with
a small patch to fax(1), that enables converting Hebrew text
files to fax format using efix(1) from the efax package.
Keywords: fax efax Hebrew reverse
Author: lottem@techunix.technion.ac.il (Avner Lottem)
Maintained-by: lottem@techunix.technion.ac.il (Avner Lottem)
Primary-site: tochnapc2.technion.ac.il /pub/lottem/efaxheb-0.1.tgz
18 kB efaxheb-0.1.tgz
1 kB efaxheb-0.1.lsm
(tochnapc2.technion.ac.il is 132.68.48.20)
Alternate-site:
Original-site: tochnapc2.technion.ac.il /pub/lottem/efaxheb-0.1.tgz
Platform: Needs efax07a.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
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