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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for new word-processor
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Date: 29 Jan 91 19:41:52 GMT
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In article <4703@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> 
           hubbact2@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Chris T. Hubbard) writes:
>In article <0.mac.apps@pro-angmar>, 
 #          jdonohue@pro-angmar.UUCP (Jeffrey Donohue) writes:
># If anyone knows of a word-processor, either shareware, public domain, or
># commercial, for the MAC SE, which would allow me to write from the right
side
># of the page to the left, please let me know.
   ...(skipping the rest from JD)...
>I am a student at Purdue in my fourth semester of Hebrew.  I am also
interested
>in a text editor that goes from right to left.  I found some thing made in
1986
>called MacInHebrew which was supposed to allow Macwrite to be a Hebrew text
>Editor.  I got it from  cc.sfu.ca .

MacInHebrew was done by someone connected to MIT, if I remember right.  Note
that there is a new version of this just out (I got a postcard about version
4.0 sometime in the last month, as I am registered for the earlier version). 
The success of the earlier version depends on what application you are trying
to use it with.  As I remember, it worked great with MacWrite, okay with
WriteNow, and pretty lousy with some text editor I had at the time.

If you're looking for a separate word processor which does Hebrew, there is a
company in Chicago called Davka which sells some.  They have a number of other
Hebrew/Jewish products for the Mac (and even others for the PC).  I don't have
the information here at work though, so I can't give you the details.  If no
one else comes up with the info, send me a message and I'll dig it up from
home.

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu