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- ** ASCIIHEB (c) 1989,91 by Joel M. Hoffman **
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- OVERVIEW
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- ASCIIHEB is a utility for including Hebrew in any situation confined to
- ASCII characters. It creates text documents with Hebrew letters that
- can be viewed with any monitor that supports standard ASCII coding, from
- mono. up to SuperDuperVGA+++.
-
- ASCIIHEB automatically converts left-to-right text to right-to-left, for
- convenient reading without a mirror.
-
- The author uses this program for including Hebrew in E-mail, text
- documents to be printed on an unknown printer, and for displaying Hebrew
- with a minimum of fuss on any screen.
-
- This program is Shareware. IT IS NOT FREE. Please see the last section
- for information on registering your copy of ASCIIHEB.
-
-
- USAGE
- ~~~~~
-
- ASCIIHEB is a filter; it reads from STDIN and writes to STDOUT. It
- terminates when it sees a blank line. If you just type:
-
- ASCIIHEB
-
- at a DOS prompt, ASCIIHEB will read lines one at a time from the
- keyboard, converting the letters it sees to Hebrew (see the section
- below on ``Keyboard Layout''). You can use
-
- ASCIIHEB < file1 > file2
-
- to convert file1 into Hebrew, storing the Hebrew in file2. If you type
-
- ECHO gcrh, | ASCIIHEB
-
- the program will respond with
-
- |~~| ~| ~~~| ~~| | |
- _| | | __|_ \;
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- KEYBOARD LAYOUT
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- The keyboard layout is the standard layout used in Israel. Here is
- where the letters are located:
-
- \~~~~~~\~~~~~~\~~~~~~\~~~~~~\~~~~~~\~~~~~~\~~~~~~\~~~~~~\~~~~~~\
- \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \
- \ 2 \ 3 \ 4 \ 5 \ 6 \ 7 \ 8 \ 9 \ 0 \
- \------\------\------\------\------\------\------\------\------\
- \ W \ E \ R \ T \ Y \ U \ I \ O \ P \
- \ \ koof \ resh \ aleph\ tet \ vav \ NUN \ MEM \ peh \
- \------\------\------\------\------\------\------\------\------\------\
- \ A \ S \ D \ F \ G \ H \ J \ K \ L \ ; \
- \ shin \ dalet\ gimel\ kaf \ ayin \ yud \ chet \ lamed\ CHAF \ FEH \
- \------\------\------\------\------\------\------\------\-------------
- \ Z \ X \ C \ V \ B \ N \ M \ , \
- \ zayin\samech\ bet \ heh \ nun \ mem \ tzadi\ taf \
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- o This is the standard Israeli keyboard layout.
- o Letters in CAPS are final letters.
- o Only lower-case letters are converted.
-
-
-
- THE FONT
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- The characters are proportionally-spaced, varying from 2 to 6 units wide
- by up to 3 units tall and sometimes one unit deep. A variety of ASCII
- characters is used to create the letters.
-
-
-
- BUGS
- ~~~~
-
- o The user must know the Israeli keyboard layout. Future versions may
- support other transcriptions.
-
- o There is no punctuation.
-
- o Some of the letters, while not actually illegible, are ugly.
-
-
-
- REGISTRATION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This program is not expensive, but it's also not free. If you like
- ASCIIHEB, the author is only asking for $10 as a registration fee. If
- this is a financial hardship for you, and you still want to use the
- program, contact the author.
-
-
-
- Please send payment to: Joel M. Hoffman
- c/o Excelsior Computer Services
- 19 Hillcrest Lane
- Rye, NY 10580
-
-
- Comments and suggestions, as well as bug reports, are welcome!
-
- You can contact the author at the above address, or via email. No phone
- calls please.
-
- hoffman@nyuacf.BITNET <-- BITNET
- hoffman@acfcluster.nyu.edu <-- Internet
- [72700,402] <-- CompuServe
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