<div dir="ltr"><div>On Monday, August 20th at 18:30, Haifux will celebrate a Bar-Mitsva and gather to hear Zvi Gilboa talk about:</div><div><br></div><div> Placing the Dots: On the Technical Challenges and Cultural Aspects of Typesetting Hebrew Vowel-Marks</div>
<div><br></div><div>Abstract</div><div><br></div><div>This lecture will discuss the challenges presented by Hebrew vowel marks (nikud) with respect to glyph-placement and kerning in (La)TeX and under Linux, as well as the various approaches to date to meet these challenges, and likewise the cultural aspects of their causes and implications.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Attendance is free, and you are all invited!</div><div><br></div><div>==================================================================</div><div>Future lectures:</div><div><br></div><div>03/09/12 The Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) Cloud: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda</div>
24/09/12 FOSS for production of goods (tentative title) - Yael Vaya-Talmor<div>15/10/12 Adding colors to Kademlia - Gil Einziger</div><div>29/10/12 Israeli DIgital Rights NPO - Zvi Devir (the first talk of the semester)</div>
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<div>~</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.<br><a href="http://ladypine.org">http://ladypine.org</a><br>
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