Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.124 October 6, 1994 1) Hebrew/Yiddish Software (Mordechai Steve Seidman) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 14:33:32 -0400 From: srs3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu Subject: Hebrew/Yiddish Software list Sorry this list is so long, but I have edited down to a minimum. It should contain all the information and phone numbers that so far have been alluded to in this list Hebrew/English/Russian software, wordprocessors Lev Software 1-(800) 776-6538 P.O. Box 17832, Plantation, FL 33318 Gamma Productions, Inc. 710 Wilshire Bvd, Suite 609 Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA I just received an announcement from Gamma Productions of UniType that extends Windows to accept 175 languages. Will work in any Windows application, according to the flyer. "Right-to-left languages require text to be intered one line at a time with carriage returns." List $299 (special until May 1 for Gamma customers $149) Gamma Prod. 2130 Sawtelle Blvd. Suite 305 Los Angeles, CA 90025 310-478-6774 Hebrew & Judaic Software: Davka Co. Davka Co. 7074 N. Western Ave. Chicago, IL 60645 (800) 621-8227 They have CD roms of extensive Hebrew literature (Talmud etc.) besides word processors etc. Now, if they would only issue the stuff with nikud in it, even i would get it (expecially a computer Talmud with nikud would be great... but at least if the tanakh would have the nikud i would be happy) Torah Educational Software Torah Educational Software 230 East Rout 59 Nanuet, NY 10954 (800) 952-6853 (914) 426-3845 (914) 425-1042 (FAX) Sells the 'Bible Scholar' for mac or ibm for $239, fonts, plus much more. Hebrew Writer-tm 2.5 (made in Israel) has auto-nikud, $189 for IBM. (according to the sales representative this program will automatically put in the nikud from a database supplied with the program. if it works properly, it sounds like a dream come true :) Lautman & Associates Lautman & Associates (Hebrew Software) P.O. Box 5405 Herzliya 46153, Israel +972-9-585075 FAX: +972-9-576017 Nisus can be bought direct (and at student discount) nisus@weber.ucsd.edu Nisus Software (formerly Paragon Concepts, Inc.) 107 S. Cedros Ave. Solana Beach, CA 92075-1900 (800) 922-2993 (extension #1 for technical support) (619) 481-1477 (619) 481-6154 (FAX) AppleLink: NISUS.MGMT Macintosh word processor that supports mixed directional text including Arabic, Czech, English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Persian (Farsi), Polish and Cyrillic Languages. You can also type in Chinese, Korean, and Thai, if you have the appropriate Language Extensions (script, keyboard layout file, fonts,etc.). Call Apple's Customer Assistance (WorldScript info) (800) 776-2333 Nisus suggests calling MacConnection for discount MacConnection (800) 800-0002 (603) 446-7711 (603) 446-7791 (FAX) Accent Software International/Kivun Accent Software International/Kivun P.O. Box 53063 Jerusalem ISRAEL Tel: +972-2-793723 Fax: +972-2-793731 questions may be addressed to: info@accent.co.il This company produces the multilingual Windows word processor, Dagesh, which is distributed by Davka, among other companies. It has been on the market for almost two years and supports typing in virtually all Western languages (e.g. English, French, Spanish, Finnish, etc.), as well as Hebrew and Russian. There is a complete Hebrew and English Spell checker, including options for checking Hebrew according to either "regular" or academic usage. It includes 20+ fonts in Hebrew (as well as the fonts needed for Russian support). The spell checker does not check nikud, however There is also a less expensive version Dagesh Lite. Current version is 1.1 and includes a free upgrade to 2.0, scheduled to ship later this year. (Note: Lite does not include a free upgrade) Kabbalah Software Kabbalah Software 8 Price Drive Edison, NJ 08817 kabbalah@israel.nysernet.org 980-572-0869 Linguist's Software, Inc. Linguist's Software, Inc. PO Box 580 Edmonds, WA 98020 (206) 775-1130 The only full, complete, accurate, and authorized source that I know if is sold by Linguist's Software for $99, I believe. What I have is on three floppies, in MS Word format, for the MAC and requires a Hebrew font. I have used it and my professors here are impressed. I am, too. It says on the disk, copyright by Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft 1967/77/83 and 1987 by P.B. Payne. They are the ones who produce the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, the standard among Western theological scholarship. I'm sure that they have a Windows version as well. Hope this helps. (zxmli05@student.uni-tuebingen.de (Shaughn Daniel) A recent phone call to them has revealed that you must also purchase a BHS font that has the cantillation marks. The upshot of this is that their software isn't compatible with the Macintosh HebrewScript system extensions. I would strongly urge the company to make their software compatible with the "upper ascii" Israeli-Hebrew fonts. Judaic Clip Art (free catalogue) Heritage Graphics PO Box 139R Blauvelt, NY 10913 (914) 359-0761 ------------------------------------------------------------ 7. ftp.netcom.com /pub/abdali this archive has macintosh system software extensions that will allow Hebrew/Arabic word processing while still leaving your machine essentially an English based machine. This pretty much will make your machine bi- lingual. It works with system 7.0.1 but can be buggy at times. You may have to install fonts manually with Font DA mover. System 7.1 works, and appears more stable. Included is MuEdit 1.3, which is a terrific text editor fully compatible with Israeli and Arabic right to left fonts. (I have found that with 7.0.1 I must install fonts with FontDA mover that can handle true-type fonts... but with system-7.1 i can just drag the fonts with all the other extensions onto the closed system folder and reboot and everything is fine) In any event, I have found that MuEdit 1.3 is completely compatible with WorldScript 7.1. Tex-Edit 2.5 (Ie. Texas-Editor) is another shareware text editor that is Worldscript compatible. A short description of the Global Jewish Networking Server, of other information resources related to Jewish and Israeli matters and the access to software which can give you the best interaction with these systems follows. mordechai steve seidman [A thousand thanks from all of us. Along with Khayem Bochner's fine survey of guides to Yiddish we now have two FAQ files. These will be available via anonymous ftp. The shames is also preparing a memo on searching the archives. nm] ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 4.124 Mendele has 2 rules: 1. Provide a meaningful Subject: line 2. Sign your article (full name please) A Table of Contents is now available via anonymous ftp, along with weekly updates. Anonymous ftp archives available on: ftp.mendele.trincoll.edu in the directory pub/mendele/files Archives available via gopher on: gopher.cic.net Send articles to: mendele@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu Other business: nmiller@mail.trincoll.edu