Re: Fwd: Yudit-2.7.beta1

[Walid Shaari <ws070 at mdx dot ac dot uk>]

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 17:09, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Could we get some first impresions of the work Gaspar has produced ?
> Walid/Others ?

That was my quick test, Total time 5-15 minutes, more reviews later next
weekend hopefully :


See a screenshot @  http://melinux.com/arabeyes/imgs/yudit-beta.png

There was only source package at the moment installation was done
without qt and motif add-ons,at least thats what I intended to do.

1. Get the the latest version of yudit-version-src.tar.gz from :
 http://yudit.org/download/yudit-2.7.beta2.tar.gz 

and untar it with :

    tar xvfz yudit-version-src.tar.gz

2. run the famous  installation trio :
 ./configure

"if you want you can take a peek at the Makefile, and change it for
optimizations, but I did not as its still beta software, and I prefer
test generic config."

 make
sudo make install or su to root ands run make install whatever floats
your boat

then  run it /usr/bin/yudit

First impressions are good :
It knows about my intelimouse :)
from the buttons bar I click on the one that says straight, and select
Arabic, press ok, nothing happened !!!
Go back to the straight button and again select  Arabic, but this time
press the arrow key, and voila, Arabic is selected, but it looks like I
do not have the fonts required as usual

At that stage download Saudi Fonts from
http://www.arabeyes.org/download/3rd/kacst_fonts.tar.bz2
unpacked them, and then moved them to ~/.yudit/fonts

then edited ~/.yudit/yudit.properties adding the following lines :
yudit.font.kacst=KacstArt.ttf,KacstDecorative.ttf,KacstPoster.ttf,KacstTitle.ttf,KacstBook.ttf,KacstDigital.ttf,KacstTitleL.ttf

yudit.editor.font=kacst

yudit.editor.fonts=default,TrueType,Misc,JP2000X,JP2000T,kacst

restarted yudit again changed to ArabicKeyboard from the button bar menu
it worked


Wa Salam

Walid


> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> --- Gaspar Sinai <gsinai yudit org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A have added full bi-directional support to yudit-2.7.betas.
> > 
> > This will be released after a test period of bi-di and
> > after we have finished adding proper Tibetan and Lao support, which
> > was set back because of the BiDi changes. (A couple of weeks)
> > 
> > You can find the latest yudit-2.7.betaXX.tar.gz somwhere at:
> > 
> >   http://yudit.org/download.html
> > 
> > Current beta version is yudit-2.7.beta2.
> > 
> > In the current version the explicit bidi is totally reversable,
> > the text can be created from the view. The implicit bidi is
> > using the unicode algorithm.
> > 
> > Please look at this file to find out about the artifacts:
> > 
> >   http://yudit.org/download/Yudit.bidi.txt
> > 
> > Please bang on betas, but please keep down mail traffic by sending
> > me summaries only.
> > 
> > I expect some redrawing problems, but bidi itself should be just
> > fine.
> > 
> > I hope the buttons for document embedding and explicit bidi
> > will be intuitive - I do not have any time to write a any docs.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> 
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