# QText

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{{Short description|DOS Hebrew-English word processing application}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}

{{Infobox software
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| author = Yitzhak Mintz<ref name="Honey"/>
| developer = Dvir Software<ref name="S-note1"/>
| released = {{Start date and age|1988|df=yes}}<ref name="Honey"/>
| discontinued = yes
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| programming language = [Turbo Pascal](/source/Turbo_Pascal)
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| genre = [Word processor](/source/Word_processor)
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'''QText''' was a Hebrew-English [word processing](/source/word_processing) application for [DOS](/source/DOS) in the late 1980s and early 90s.<ref name="WP1"/><ref name="FandW"/><ref name="Honey"/>  
==History==
The program was developed by Dvir Software from [kibbutz Dvir](/source/Dvir), [Israel](/source/Israel), and programmed in [Turbo Pascal](/source/Turbo_Pascal).<ref name="Honey"/>QText was one of the first word processing applications that stored [bi-directional text](/source/bi-directional_text) in logical order (by letter-typing-order and not visual order). In its DOS incarnations, the interface was text-based and did not offer [WYSIWYG](/source/WYSIWYG).

A Windows-compatible version of QText was released, but the brand faded out from the public as [Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows) gained popularity and [Microsoft Word](/source/Microsoft_Word) with Hebrew support became available. QText is no longer developed. The DOS version of QText used encoding starting at the code 128d for the [Aleph](/source/Aleph) character.<ref name="HebrewCh"/>

An early version of their web pages ({{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981202053350/http://www.qtext.co.il/ |date=2 December 1998 |title=http://www.qtext.co.il/ }}) has a working (tested July 2011) link to a 30-day free trial of the Windows version.

==See also==
*[Comparison of word processors](/source/Comparison_of_word_processors)
*[List of word processors](/source/List_of_word_processors)

==References==
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<ref name="Honey">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.israelhayom.com/2016/05/11/land-of-milk-and-high-tech/|title=Land of milk and high-tech|date=11 May 2016|magazine=Israel Hayom|access-date=1 October 2018|id=Cue the Hebrew text|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181001120121/http://www.israelhayom.com/2016/05/11/land-of-milk-and-high-tech/|archive-date=1 October 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="S-note1">{{cite web|url=http://www.shoshke.net/uyip/qtext-help-notes.htm|title=QText Version 8.0 Help Notes|access-date=1 October 2018|website=shoshke.net|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613074450/http://www.shoshke.net/uyip/qtext-help-notes.htm|archive-date=13 June 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

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<ref name="WP1">{{cite web|title=Tools|id=Word Processors|access-date=1 October 2018|url=http://www.morim.com/tools.html|website=Morim|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328091549/http://www.morim.com/tools.html|archive-date=2018-03-28|url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="FandW">{{cite web|title=Hebr.: Fonts and Wordprocessors|access-date=1 October 2018|url=https://www.qumran.org/ftp/local/hebrew/wordfont/files.htm|website=qumram.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325014215/http://www.qumran.org/ftp/local/hebrew/wordfont/files.htm|archive-date=2017-03-25|url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="HebrewCh">{{cite web|title=Standards for representation of Hebrew characters|id=DOS Hebrew|website=the Linux Documentation Project|url=https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hebrew-HOWTO-2.html|access-date=1 October 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703160500/https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hebrew-HOWTO-2.html|archive-date=3 July 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

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{{Word processors}}

Category:1988 software
Category:Discontinued software
Category:Word processors

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