Re: [libreoffice-users] Struggling with Hebrew in LO

On 10/25/2016 05:17 PM, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 08:43 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I'm struggling with using mixed English and Hebrew text in LO.  This is
> > a fully up-to-date LO 5.1.4.2 in a new installation of Linux Mint.
> >
> > When I type English text, the letters come out in the right order, but the
> > punctuation goes at the beginning of the line, until the next letter is typed
> > which is strange but sort-of-OK in mid-sentence but no good at end of the
> > paragraph.
> >
> > Attempting to combine Hebrew and English text in the same sentence, as it
> > were to say 'shalom' in flight, assembles the language blocks the wrong
> > way round.  Using Alt-Ctrl-8 and Alt-Ctrl-9 doesn't seem to fix this and
> > the Shift-Ctrl-D and Alt-Shift combinations are also dysfunctional.  The
> > font-name (selected as SBL Hebrew) switches once characters are typed to
> > DejaVu Sans.
> >
> > This is probably all very familiar to someone (if not all), so anyone
> > help me to get this working correctly, please?
> >
> > Jonathan
> I have never been able to get RTL and LTR languages to mix in the same
> sentence properly with any application in Windows or Linux when you
> start adding punctuation. In LO you can set the language for a
> paragraph and, if I remember correctly, that fixes the punctuation
> placement problem. I am sorry for not being certain as it has been a
> few years since I wrote any significant quantity of Hebrew.
Sorry, the option is Format/Character/Font/Language or right click and
character/font/language. It isn't paragraph. As I said, it has been a
few years.

Trever


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