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Yiddish texts for Yiddish Reader for Linux

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Yiddish Texts

The following texts provided on this page may not be changed and may only be used for personal use in the Yiddish Reader for Linux.

All Unicode versions of Bavebter Yid by Sholem Berger are available at bav.tar; in this archive, html files in UTF-8 files are contained which can be loaded in the Yiddish Reader by menu File, menu item Open Yiddish Unicode/UTF-8 html file....

More Yiddish text for downloading are available at Raphael Finkel's website: http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish.html which can be loaded in the Yiddish Reader by menu File, menu item Open Yiddish Unicode/UTF-8 html file....

Getting Yiddish Reader for Linux

A compiled version for ARM processors and the sources of the Yiddish Reader for Linux are available at

  http://www.tichnut.de/jewish/yiddishreader.tar.gz

After downloading, create an empty directory, copy the downloaded file

  yiddishreader.tar.gz

into it and extract it with

  tar xvfz yiddishreader.tar.gz

For using instructions, please read the README file.
The program requires a TrueType font with Unicode Hebrew characters (is not supplied) - the font and its size can be chosen individually.
The program is designed for a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels which is the default and which is available at many PDAs.

In the Yiddish Reader for Linux, the downloaded Yiddish text has to be loaded by menu File, menu item Open Yiddish Unicode/UTF-8 html file... or Open Yiddish Unicode/UTF-8 Text file...

Author of Yiddish Reader for Linux

Yiddish Reader for Linux Copyright © by Ulrich Greve (2002)

Ulrich Greve
E-Mail: ulrichgreve@tichnut.de

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