QText was a popular Hebrew-English
word processing application for
DOS in the late 1980s and early 90s.
It was developed by Dvir Software from
kibbutz Dvir,
Israel, and programmed in
Turbo Pascal.
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). It was also one of the first applications to support
Hebrew filenames. 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 hexadecimal code 128d for the
Aleph
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic , Syriac , Arabic ʾ and North Arabian 𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez .
These letter ...
character.
An early version of their web pages () has a working (tested July 2011) link to a 30-day free trial of the Windows version.
See also
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Comparison of word processors
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List of word processors
References
1988 software
Discontinued software
Word processors
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