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Snow Leopard comes out on Friday

By Ben ⋅ 26th Aug 2009 ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

I’m going to walk down to the apple store to get my copy after class if anyone wants to join me.
Here are the new things in it for $39.

In particular, this caught my eye:

Bidirectional text.
For languages that are written right to left, such as Hebrew and Arabic, Snow Leopard now elegantly handles mixing in left-to-right text. It also has a split-cursor option that shows the appropriate cursor direction at the boundary between right-to-left and left-to-right text.

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3 comments for “Snow Leopard comes out on Friday”

  1. Posted by Ben | 26th Aug 2009, 7:01 pm

    Issues with Mellel at this stage, though.

  2. Posted by Tim Hu | 8th Sep 2009, 1:23 pm

    Is Snow Leopard any better for bi-directional text? I heard that the limitation still lies with MS Office?

  3. Posted by Ben Hudson | 8th Sep 2009, 1:38 pm

    yeah, I think they’ve sorted out the issues with right-to-left text.

    No idea about MS Office though.

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