Mendele: Yiddish literature and language
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Contents of Vol. 4.153
October 26, 1994

1) Transliteration (Mashinke Gruss Levinsohn)
2) Transliteration (Anno Siegel)
3) Transliteration (Moishe Feller)
4) Transliteration (Raphael Finkel)
5) Transliteration (Itzik Moskovitz)

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 00:48:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: mashinke@wam.umd.edu
Subject: Transliteration

Meylekh Viswanath added to Sam Kocoarski's plea for computing in Hebrew
letters.  I have just purchased an excellent shareware program, "Hebrew
Edit" for $19 US dollars, from "Right to left Software."  I use it
directly from my C:  Their address is 3332 Yonge St, P.O. Box 94034,
Toronto Ontario, M4N-3R1, Canada. Tel: 416-489-7440. Fax 416-489-6654.
Hardware requirements: ibm-pc or comptible, with vga or ega graphics.
Hebrew keyboard or chip not needed.  For printing out -printer compatible
with hp laserjet, deskjet, epson dot-matrix or ibm-proprinter.

Could there be a sub group of mendeleniks with Hebrew font capabilities
who would send occasional brief correspondence in "rikhtige mama-loshn?"

Mashinke Gruss Levinsohn

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 10:58:47 +0100
From: anno4000@w172zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.d400.de
Subject: Transliteration

[Meylekh Viswanath writes:]

>Such software exists and has been implemented for Tamil; so I am sure
>it is possible for Yiddish.  With Tamil, three or four lines are used
>to reproduce a single line.  Thus, if we wanted to write khof, we
>would have:
>
>             _____
>                   \
>                   |
>                   |
>            ______/
>

There must be many programs out there that do this for Hebrew.  I have
one called hebtype.  It was written Lee Lawrence (leel@cs.colorado.edu)
in 1991 and it's in the public domain.  I can send it to anyone who's
interested.  You'll need a C compiler to use it.  This is the font and
the key mapping:

 abgdhvzHTycClm
 ,__  |_  ___  ___  _   __ ____ ___ _ __  ____ __ __   \ |

 |  |   |    |    | | | `|  | |  |  |   |    |  |   |  |\|

 | _|  /     | ___|   |__|  | |  |  | | |    | /| __|_ | \

             |

MnNSipPxXkrst."
 ''   ___  _ _ _ __  ___ _ _ _ _  __   __   _ _ ___  _   _ ____
       | | | | |   | , / | |  \| |_ | |_ |  | | |  |  |  | |  |
    . _| | |/_/    | |   |/  __\    | ___| _|/  |_/   | _| |__|
                         |          |                 |

Anno Siegel

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 05:42:31 -0700 (MST)
From: feller@pcef.pc.maricopa.edu
Subject: Transliteration

There is a very good transliteration program on Nisus.  All you have to
do is highlight the "transliteration" icon, and the start typing English
letters.  For example: an "a" gives you an "aleph", a "b" gives you a
"beys", etc.  It's not quite as good as the real thing which Nisus does
extremely well.

Moishe Feller

4)----------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 09:07:28 EDT
From: raphael@ms.uky.edu
Subject: Transliteration

Shoyn geven a hibshe por yor zint ikh hob dos frier modie geven aykh ale,
un es zaynen naye gekumene vos hobn nit gehert:

ikh hob a transliteratsie program vos iz geshribn af C (oykh mir a
shprakh) vos ken makhen fun mern

  ___   _ _   _  _  _ _     _ _ _ _ _  _ _ __    _ _
  |  |  | | \/ |  |  \|     | |  \|  | ,\|  |    ,\|
  |_/  _|/  | _|    __\    _|/  __\ _| |_\ /|    |_|

mayne programen kenen di oysleg-klalim (ven tsu nitsn a shlos-mem, a
shtume alef, un kedoyme azelkhe), un mit a rshime loshn-koydeshkike
verter, kenen zey zey oykh akurat oysleygn.

oykh hob ikh etlekhe yidishe bukhstabe-bender (fonts) vos ikh ken nitsn
mit TeX kdey tsu drukn sheyn-oysgeleygt un sheyn-gedrukte shtiklekh.

der vos farinteresirt zikh ken mir onshraybm.

Raphael Finkel

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 10:36:08 +0800 (PST)
From: hcedu012@huey.csun.edu
Subject: Experiment with Hebrew Software

<VER Kivun Ltd. Dagesh Lite for Windows, Version 1.0>=0D
<FILEFORMAT 0 1>=0D
<FTNUM 1  8 David>=0D
<FTNUM 2  8 Narkisim>=0D
<FTNUM 3  1 Courier>=0D
<FTNUM 4  1 Courier New>=0D
<FTNUM 5  1 Times New Roman>=0D
<FTNUM 6  5 KCyrillic>=0D
<FTNUM 7 10 Symbol>=0D
<DD R><DHM IN><TM 72><BM 72><LM 1.25><RM 1.25><SAP 1>=0D
<LP><M NormalParH><FT 3><SZ 12>I wonder if any of you can read this using=
=20=0D
the Software "Dagesh Lite". If you can, then we can communicate in Yiddish=
=20=0D
or Hebrew. </P>=0D
<RP><FT 2>=E3=E0=C8=F1 =E1=F8=E9=C4=E5=E5=F2=EC=F2 =E0=E9=C4=E6 =E2=F2=F9=
=F8=E9=E1=EF =E2=F2=E5=E5=E0=C8=F8=EF =E0=E9=C4=EF      <FT 4> Dagesh=20=0D
Lite<FT 2>     </P>=0D

Itzik Moskovitz

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