The Haifa Linux Club is happy to announce version 1.0 of R2L Q: What is R2L? A: R2L is a package which contains biditext, along with a couple of accessory programs. Q: What is biditext? A: biditext is a library that adds a degree of bidirectional (bidi) support to any X program. This means that an X program that is run under biditext will display hebrew text properly, and not "reversed". Q: What else is in the package? A: The package also includes: * r2l programs (r2l, r2lgnomeapplet, r2ldockapp, r2lterminal, r2ltcl). Those programs control the behaviour of runing copies of the biditext libraries (e.g: allow you to disable biditext temporarily if it confuses you). * refreshd: Whenever an r2l program enables or diables biditext, the changes are only visible when that window gets refreshed. refreshd (Refresh Daemon) refreshes the relevant windows automatically. * r2llib: The library that provides the interface used by biditext and r2l clients. Useful if you want to write your own r2l program. Q: Is it free? A: Of course. r2l is available under the terms of the GNU (L)GPL. You are free to use, redistribute, modify, and whatever. See the README file for the gory details. Q: Where can I get it from? A: http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/R2L/ See this page for the tarball, as well as RPM packages (use rpm -tb to build them from the tarball) biditext requires the library fribidi, which can be found at http://fribidi.sf.net/ version >= 0.1.10 -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:tzafrir[at]technion.ac.il http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir