[Wine] DavkaWriter 6 ?

[Jonathan Allen]

Hi List,

Has anyone had any success in getting DavkaWriter 6 (a pretty full-functioned 
English and Hebrew word processor) to work under Wine?  For me (FC4, 0.9.28 from 
source) the install seems to work - albeit with a slew of winges about fonts) - 
and the program also seems prepared to run.  I'm blessed if I can find a logo 
file anywhere to make a launcher ...

But - the display is somewhat munged with the characters on the ruler being 
replaced by boxes, the characters on the default keyboard (for entering Hebrew 
characters) are boxes and so are the instructions as to which keyboard to 
select.  If I didn't know how to drive this under Windows, I'd be stumped.

Also, when trying to select a font, many of the sample displays (to the right of 
the font name, in the "AaBbCcDd..." format) also show boxes, although many do 
show the correct font sample.  But leaving the font selection also leaves a 
solid block of grey on the top R-H side of the document display area.

Lastly, picking up existing documents is a real problem.  New documents, 
provided you select sensible fonts, are relatively easy to create with just a 
few winges on the <stderr> channel.  Old documents, however, come in with "Tomes 
New Roman" and "Arial" fonts and are all turned into pages of strange-sized 
boxes; trying to select Bitstream Sans (for example) just looks dreadful and 
completely out of size, which OpenOffice with Word documents doesn't do.  Any 
ideas ?

Jonathan