QText

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

{{Infobox software | name = QText | logo =  | logo alt = | logo caption = | screenshot =  | screenshot alt = | caption = | collapsible =  | 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 | ver layout =  | latest release version = | latest release date = {{Start date and age|1991|df=yes}}<ref name="Honey"/> | latest preview version = | latest preview date =  | repo =  | programming language = Turbo Pascal | operating system = | platform = | size = | language = | language count =  | language footnote = | genre = Word processor | license = | alexa = | website =  | standard = | AsOf = }} '''QText''' was a Hebrew-English word processing application for 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, Israel, and programmed in Turbo Pascal.<ref name="Honey"/>QText was one of the first word processing applications that stored 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.

A Windows-compatible version of QText was released, but the brand faded out from the public as Windows gained popularity and 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 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.

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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>

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