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Linux-Announce Digest #378
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Linux-Announce Digest #378, Volume #4 Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Indlinux.org's Milan (Gnome in Hindi!) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
CourseForum/ProjectForum 2.1: Web Apps for Group Communication (Mark Roseman)
noteedit-2.1.1(segno issues, double bar) (Joerg Anders)
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Indlinux.org's Milan (Gnome in Hindi!)
Date: 8 Apr 2003 22:25:01 GMT
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http://linuxpr.com/releases/5732.html
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IndLinux.org announces launch of Hindi interface for computers
Apr 3rd, 12:19 UTC
IndLinux.org's Milan software enables Hindi users to use computers in
their own language, a major leap forward in bringing the benefits of
information technology to Indian masses
IndLinux.org announced the launch of IndLinux Milan v0.37, a Hindi
interface to Gnome, the graphical user interface (GUI) of the
GNU/Linux operating system. The software is available as a free
download from the Web site www.indlinux.org. With IndLinux Milan v0.37
installed, those who can read and write Hindi can now use computers in
their own language.
The organization said that this is a major step forward in bringing
the benefits of information technology to the 400 million people who
speak the Hindi language. Prakash Advani, co-founder of IndLinux.org
said that the organization has been working on localizing the
GNU/Linux operating system to Hindi for the last three years.
Localization involves changing the menus and other elements of the
graphic user interface from English to Hindi.
"Hindi is the third largest language in the world, yet there are no
operating systems available in this language. IndLinux.org therefore
decided to make Hindi support available for free to create a
revolution in Indian Language Computing," said Advani.
As the world becomes increasingly digitized, Indian Language audiences
need to be brought into the mainstream of the digital revolution so
that they can also reap the socio-economic benefits of information
technology. The IndLinux Milan software is expected to plug a critical
gap in the market, since popular operating systems and software are
available only in English which is spoken by a mere five percent of
India.
IndLinux Milan v0.37 works on Red Hat Linux v8.0 and the organization
is working on porting it to other distributions of the GNU/Linux
operating system. Advani said that they chose the name Milan (Hindi
for "Union") because it signifies the inclusion of India's Hindi
speaking masses into the mainstream of the digital age.
As the cost of computers fall, the biggest bottleneck to the
widespread use of computers is the availability of Indian language
software. By making the software available free of cost, Indlinux.org
hopes that information technology will reach each and every part of
India. IndLinux.org is a voluntary, non-profit effort that has been
supported by Netcore Solutions Pvt. Ltd, a Mumbai-based technology
company. After having localized GNU/Linux to Hindi, the organization
hopes to localize the GUI to Marathi, Gujarati and other Indian
languages.
To download the Milan software (a 1.5MB download) click on
[3]www.indlinux.org/downloads/index.php. Screenshots and pictures of
the operating system can be downloaded from
[4]www.indlinux.org/hindi/gnome/gnome20.html.
For more details, contact:
Prakash Advani,
Co-founder, IndLinux.org,
C/o Netcore Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
402, Peninsula Chambers (Morarjee Mills Compound),
Ganpat Rao Kadam Marg,
Lower Parel (W), Mumbai 400 013.
Tel: +91 22-5662 8000 Mobile: +91-98202 82922
Fax: +91 (22) 56628134
E-mail: prakash1 at netcore.co.in
Web: [5]www.indlinux.org
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(Submitted by [6]Prakash Advani of [7]FreeOS)
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From: Mark Roseman <roseman@courseforum.com>
Subject: CourseForum/ProjectForum 2.1: Web Apps for Group Communication
Date: 9 Apr 2003 13:35:01 GMT
CourseForum Technologies is pleased to announce the immediate
availability of both CourseForum 2.1 and ProjectForum 2.1.
These innovative web-based applications can help you bring increased
interaction, coordination and communication to online or face-to-face
courses, student groups, workgroup projects, business teams, and
corporate intranets. Easy to learn and use, both CourseForum and
ProjectForum can be hosted on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD,
while users need only a standard web browser.
Version 2.1 includes a host of improvements, in areas such as branding,
project support, markup, and performance, along with several bug fixes.
During our spring sale, you can save 25% off the cost of licenses.
CourseForum licenses start at only US$59, while ProjectForum
licenses start at only US$149, but these prices are available until
the end of April only. Free versions of both products are also
available.
For more information, or to download free or evaluation versions, visit
http://www.courseforum.com.
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From: Joerg Anders <j.anders@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Subject: noteedit-2.1.1(segno issues, double bar)
Date: 9 Apr 2003 18:10:04 GMT
Version 2.1.1 of the musical score editor NoteEdit for Linux is available:
http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html
New features:
- staff context (the actual clef and key signature is shown at the
left hand side during replay; configurable)
- (again) KDE2/Qt2 compatible
Please note: I cannot really test this. For a long run I recommend
an KDE3/QT3 update.
- double bar
- Segno issues (see also "example1.not"):
o Segno
o dal Segno
o dal Segno al Fine
o dal Segno al Coda
o Fine
o Coda
Please set these signs in every staff, otherwise ... (don't know ???)
Furthermore, it is your responsibiltity to place the signs
in a reasonable manner. Otherwise the replay behaviour is undefined.
- MUP users: I didn't comprehend some parts of MUP. Thus, I stored
some items in a non-MUP-conform manner. As a result some files
were not MUP-able. Now I changed some of these parts, among them:
o Slurs: I claimed MUP cannot deal with slures which lead over more
than 2 notes. This is not true! NoteEdit-2.1.1 now
produces a MUP-comfrom representation of such slurs.
This holds for the 1st and 2nd voice. From 3rd voice on
the representation remains MUP-incompatible.
o "lonely" trills: I claimed MUP cannot deal with so-called
"lonely" trills (wavy lines without "tr" symbol).
But this is not true. NoteEdit-2.1.1 now produces
a MUP-comfrom representation of such trills.
o Empty lyrics: I claimed MUP cannot deal with partly missing
lyrics in a measure. This is not true.
NoteEdit-2.1.1 now produces a MUP-comfrom
representation of such lyrics.
I apologize to the MUP developers for these wrong statements.
Before asking this: Of cource, NoteEdit can still read the old
representation. So if you want a MUP conform
version of some non-MUP-conform "*.not" file
simply load the the file an save it again.
--
J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
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