November 2002 - openSUSE M17n - openSUSE Mailing Lists

update: mined 2000.3 package available for SuSE Linux 8.0
by Mike Fabian 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

An updated package of mined is available for SuSE Linux 8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/mined-2000.3-0.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-src/mined-2000.3-0.src.rpm Mined is a text editor, small and easy to use, yet powerful. It is Unicode-capable, using UTF-8 encoding (also converts UTF-16 input). >From the CHANGES file: ============================================================================= Changes from mined 2000.2 -> mined 2000.3 ========================================= Documentation: -------------- The manual page was updated and thoroughly revised. Its primary source was transformed into HTML, roff/man format being generated. The mined web pages were updated and revised. The file "doc/compilation" (with compilation hints) was updated. Features: --------- HOP '/' enters an indented Javadoc comment frame. Interface: ---------- Options can be concatenated on the command line. (mined -uu instead of mined -u -u enables Unicode line separators.) Right-to-left script input support is now enabled by default. The option -b toggles it. Option -G disables (actually toggles) the display of certain control characters as block graphics characters (enabled by default). Option +G enforces use of block graphics for display of menu borders. May be used if the "alternative character set" capability is not configured in your system but your terminal does have the capability. Set output delay (-d0..-d9) to none (-d-) by default in all versions. The help command was unified on Unix and DOS versions. Not completely, however, as calling a sub-programm ("less") through the "system" call doesn't seem to work on DOS (it crashes or blocks terminal input afterwards, even with cygwin). See also next comment. A second help viewing mode is now avaible (HOP HELP, e.g. HOP F1). It displays help information within mined itself, restoring the previous editing state afterwards. This is the default on MSDOS for the reason mentioned before. Bug fixes: ---------- Fixed a screen-related pointer confusion after replacement with multiple lines (embedded newline) which could result in a display bug and page down could be blocked. (Very minor) Just deleting the trailing line-end of a file is also considered a modification (a file only modified this way would previously not have been saved automatically). (Minor) With UTF-8 auto-detection involved, the character count after reading the file could be wrong (ESC ? would have been correct). (Minor) The pop-up menu, when modified with HOP and thus becoming smaller, used to leave the frame of its previous width on the screen. (Embarassing) Although I was proud of "perfect responsiveness to window size changes" I had just forgotten to implement that for the case of a menu being open. On DOS, editing a file with Unix line-ends, the function "append to buffer" used to append the lines with MSDOS line-ends. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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Japanese menu problems under IceWM
by ピアスエリック 28 May '03

28 May '03

Howdy. I don't think this is SuSE specific, so this post may not belong here. But it is Japanese related, and I've posted this twice to IceWM's mailing lists and received 0 replies. I compiled IceWM 1.2.0 for international support (--enable-i18n). In the program menu, IceWM seems to have a problem (bug?) with any folder or program with Japanese characters for its name. Here's a screenshot which demonstrates the problem. http://epierce.freeshell.org/menu.png If you'll note, the four (automated by IceWM) Japanese entries up from the bottom have proper quick-keys assigned (i.e., the (A), (T), etc.), but the 7-8 Japanese entries that I added all have a problem (i.e., just a little dot shows up). After a quick look at 'ja/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo', I tried to copy what was going on there by adding something like (_M) after the Japanese in the 'menu' file in hopes of assigning my own quick-key, but that didn't work. IceWM only seems to be looking for roman characters for its automatic quick-key assignment. Anyone have any ideas here? Thanks for reading... Eric P __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/

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iterm: internationalized terminal emulator, RPMS for SuSE Linux 8.1 available
by Mike Fabian 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

RPMs for iterm, an internationalized terminal emulator framework are available for SuSE Linux 8.1: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/fbiterm-0.2.20021001-0.i586.… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/libXiterm-0.2.20021001-0.i58… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/libXiterm-devel-0.2.20021001… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/libiterm-0.2.20021001-0.i586… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/libiterm-devel-0.2.20021001-… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-i586/xiterm-0.2.20021001-0.i586.r… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-nosrc/libXiterm-0.2.20021001-0.no… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-nosrc/xiterm-0.2.20021001-0.nosrc… ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.1-src/libiterm-0.2.20021001-0.src.r… The author of iterm, Jiro SEKIBA <jir(a)yamato.ibm.com> about iterm: > The iterm is an internationalized terminal emulator framework, which > is independent from any platform/window system. > The iterm architectural diagram is as follows; > > frame athena gtk+ based qt based other > buffer widget gnome kde widget > i18n based x termianl terminal based > console terminal terminal > +--------+---------+-----------+----------+--------+ > | | xiterm |gnomeiterm | kdeiterm | *iterm | > |fbiterm +---------+-----------+----------+--------+ > | |libxiterm|libgtkiterm|libqtiterm|etc.....| > +--------------------------------------------------+ > | libiterm | > +--------------------------+ | > | pluggable bidi engine spi| | > +---------+-------+--------+-----------------------+ > |sun pls |ibm pls|fribidi | > |liblayout| | | > +---------+-------+--------+ > > the foundation of the i18n terminal emulator "libiterm" implements the > "view" independent core i18n terminal emulator capability, including > bidi support. the libiterm includes pluggable bidi engine spi. > at this moment, sun's opensourced pls library(liblayout), ibm pls > library, and fribidi are supported. Right now, only fbiterm and > xiterm(libXiterm) are supported. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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CJK-LyX 1.2.0 package available for SuSE Linux 8.0
by Mike Fabian 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

An updated CJK-LyX package is available for SuSE Linux 8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-i386/cjk-lyx-1.2.0-0.i386.rpm For some screenshots and SuSE specific notes see http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/cjk-lyx.html >From the /usr/share/doc/packages/cjk-lyx/NEWS file: What's new in version 1.2.0? ---------------------------- LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5 and 1.1.6). This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets, which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features are now possible: - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set float-by-float - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...). Better longtable header/footer support was implemented. - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or can be shown inline - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not appear in the output. - New minipage inset Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX 1.2.0. Other more traditional insets have been improved too: - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older ghostscript method. - Support for natbib for bibliography citations The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this process, among which: - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed. - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the relevant fonts have been made available to the X server - support for many amsmath features Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow). Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix, Vmatrix - Preliminary support for xymatrix - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays. - Improvements to the parser - Improvements to math text mode - (Better) support for nested macros - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns) - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection - GUI support provided for many more features -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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Keymaps - International Keyboard Layout
by Andersin 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hello Can anyone please tell me, where I can find a good tutorial on creating my own keymap? Currently I have a Laptop with additional letters printed on the keys, which work with MS Win, if I select US-International Keyboard Layout. These letters can be accesed by pressing altGr and the respective key. Any idea where I might find such a thing with SuSE? Thanks in Advance, Christoph Burger-Scheidlin

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YaST2 and Language settings
by Togan Muftuoglu 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hi, Seems like I do not understand how to set the language in /etc/sysconfig/language so regardless of what is choosen there YaST2 will be in English. here is what I have in /etc/sysconfig/language DEFAULT_LANGUAGE="en_US" RC_LANG="en_US" ROOT_USES_LANG="no" Now I have played with the above combo so many times yet I could not reach to the point whre it behaves as I want it to be. Locale settings for the user is so that messages will be in English which has no meaning for YaST2 LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US YaST2 gets its language settings from /etc/sysconfig/language # set lang from sysconfig set_lang_from_sysconfig # use text mode if DISPLAY is not set or no qt plugin installed if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] || ! check_qt ; then if check_ncurses ; then case "$LANG" in # if it is known that a language doesn't yet work well with # ncurses # use English instead: ja*|ko*|zh*) export LANG=en_US ;; esac With the above settings YaST2 allways comes with a crap translation of Turkish ( note that even it was an excellent translation I still want to do my system administration in English). So I had to do a dirty hack which solves the need but not an elegant way # set lang from sysconfig # Below closed so it does not read /etc/sysconfig/language #set_lang_from_sysconfig # Force English export LANG=en_US So the question is what is the correct way of achieving the same result ? Thanks -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx

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Problems with YaST under SuSE 8.1
by Linas Spraunius 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hi, I have problem with Lithuanian letters in YaST: 1.YaST shows me ? instead of Lithuanian letters during installation process, when I should select which installation I want (selection of "Standard", "Minimal", "Standard with office"). 2. When I start YaST from console, main YaST page is OK. But when I start special module (DSL, Software installation, etc.) from main YaST page then I see ? instead of Lithuanian letters. 3. In Software installation module on the left side (in section with software selection like "Games", "KDE", etc.) I see ? instead of Lithuanian characters too. This problem is not very significant but sometimes it is difficult to read when YaST shows three ? in a word with length of 5 letters :) Some options I have: LANG=lt_LT console font = lt-brim... (I don't remember exactly...) console charset = iso8859-13 Regards, Linas Spraunius

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Xcdroast and tr_TR.UTF8
by Togan Muftuoglu 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

Hi, Under SuSE 8.1 when I start xcdroast I have no fonts displaed on the gui label/buutons yet when I start it with LANG=turkish xcdroast then everything is visible. toganm@earth:~/hangar> locale LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_TIME=POSIX LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_NAME="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_ALL= toganm@earth:~/hangar> cat /etc/SuSE-release SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386) VERSION = 8.1 toganm@earth:~/hangar> xcdroast -h xcdroast [options] (Version: 0.98alpha10) -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx

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SuSE, Wine, and CJK
by Shin, Jong-Hwa 12 Nov '02

12 Nov '02

Dear list I am using SuSE 8.0. Recently, I have installed wine, the emulator for Windows, for exploring some Windows applications. I use wine for an Italian dictionary. But, I have many problems to install or open some applications written in Korean environment. First of all, wine don't recognize many Korean fonts which I installed in SuSE system: Baekmukttf, Adobe for Korean, for example. Do you know how to solve this problem? Thank you in advance. Best, Jong-Hwa

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ndtpd and lookup
by Drew Poulin 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Hello, I'm trying to get ndtpd and lookup to allow me to Japanese electronic book (EB) dictionaries. ndtpd seems to be working fine. I can connect to my CD-ROM drive via telnet and list out the contents of the CD without problems. But when I type 'M-x lookup' in xemacs, I get the following error message: Unknown host "ndtpd" I've simply pasted into my .emacs file the elisp code suggested in the lookup documentation: (setq lookup-search-agents '((ndtp "ndtpd") (ndspell))) (custom-set-variables '(line-number-mode t) '(font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))) (custom-set-faces) Actually, the documentation indicates that "ndtpd" above should be all upper case, but that doesn't work either. I suspect the problem lies there, but I'm not sure what else to specify besides ndtpd. Has anyone tried this successfully? If so, can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? In case it helps, the contents of my ndtpd.conf file are below. Thank you for any pointers. Drew Poulin ###################################################################### # Configuration file for NDTPD and ebHTTPD. # (Copy this file to `ndtpd.conf', and edit it.) ###################################################################### ### Port number `ndtpd' binds. ### (default: ndtp) # ndtp-port ndtp ### Port number `ebhttpd' binds. ### (default: http) # http-port http ### Owner of the server process. ### (default: none) user ndtpuser ### Group of the server process. ### (default: none) group ndtpgrp ### How many clients can be connected to the server at the same time. ### (default: 1) # max-clients 1 ### Which hosts can or cannot connect to the server. ### (default: none) hosts 127.0.0.1 hosts ::1 hosts !? hosts toshi.transcomjapan.com ### Timeout seconds until the server disconnects an idle connection. ### (default: 900) # timeout 900 ### Path to a working directory. ### Please create the directory and make it be writable for the server ### processes before executing the server. ### (default: /usr/local/var/ndtpd) work-path /usr/local/var/ndtpd ### How many hit entries the server tries to find at a search. ### (default: 50) # max-hits 50 ### The maximum size of text the server may send as a response to ### a client. ### (default: 32768) # max-text-size 32768 ### Syslog facility ### (default: daemon) syslog-facility local0 ### ### Book entry ### begin book ### Name of the book. ### (required) name meddic ### Title of the book. ### (required) title meddic ### Path to a top directory of the book. ### (required) path /mnt/cdrom ### Path to a top directory of the appdendix data of the book. ### (default: none) appendix-path /usr/local/share/eb/appendix/meddic ### How many clients can access the book at the same time. ### (default: 1) max-clients 1 ### Which hosts can or cannot access to the book. ### (default: none) hosts 127.0.0.1 hosts ::1 hosts !? hosts toshi.transcomjapan.com ### Aliases. ### (default: none) alias-eiwa ebmed alias-waei ebmedj alias-kojien guidance end ### Add a book group directive (lines between `begin book' and `end'), ### if you want to read another CD-ROM book. A book group directive ### is required for each book.

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