[Guy Lydig]

Left Alt + Shift toggles between Hebrew and English and automatically types
text in the right direction. Punctuation looks like it will go in the wrong
place but is actually placed correctly.

"Terri N" wrote:

I selected the Hebrew phrase, then chose right-to-left (RTL), hoping that
only the phrase itself would read RTL, per my customer's request. But the
entire paragraph switched to RTL. So Word can't switch just the phrase? And
you're saying that if you're typing a left-to-right English paragraph, the
Hebrew phrase in the middle of it is going to have to read left to right as
well?

I'm having a hard time locating a Unicode Hebrew font--does a font that
supports all the Hebrew characters (including vowels) come with Windows? I
may be missing it. There is a font called "David" on my list.

The person who will be typing the text is using a Mac, and I'll then have to
paste it into my Word document and convert it to whatever font I'll be using.
I found one online called Ezra that the customer likes, but it doesn't
mention Unicode in the name.

Thank you for the hint the punctuation. I've tried it with a little
success in a couple of spots, and I'll keep trying and see if I can get the
hang of it.

Thanks for your help, Peter...this job is a huge challenge for me. But, as
with most problems, I'm also learning a lot.
--
Terri


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

1. What do you mean by "block out"? If the Hebrew text has been typed
with a proper Unicode Hebrew font, it should behave exactly as it
needs to -- this week I've been typing Arabic words in the middle of
German text, and all is well. The paragraph remains left-to-right,
because that's the direction of your main text. (If you wanted an
English word in the middle of a Hebrew paragraph, you wouldn't switch
the paragraph to left-to-rignt.)

2. I did warn you that funny things happen at the interface. The most
practical way to deal with stray punctuation is to select the wrong
items and then press Backspace or Delete (or Ctrl-X), not to try just
deleting them. The most practical way to insert punctuation at an
interface is to type some spaces, put the colon or whatever in the
middle of them, and select, then delete, the spaces that are in the
wrong place. (If you type the punctuation while you're typing the
text, there's no problem, but since you're inserting rather than
typing, you'll encounter finicky behavior.)

I don't know why adjacent characters are deleting, but if you select
the space or colon and then delete, it probably won't happen.

On Oct 9, 7:08 pm, Terri N wrote:
I am so close...the Hebrew text I am inserting into my English document has a
couple of glitches left. I'm wondering if there is a utility I can use..
I've already installed a Hebrew keyboard, which fixed almost everything. The
last two problems:

1. When I insert a bit of Hebrew into the middle of a paragraph, I then
block out that Hebrew text and hit the "right-to-left" icon. But instead of
applying it to the Hebrew, it applies it to the entire paragraph.

2. The punctuation is drifting. For instance, if there is a colon, instead
of it being attached to the previous letter, it attaches to the next letter,
after the space. So it looks sort of like this :with the colon. I can't
just reverse the space and colon, because if I delete the space, the "s"
deletes also. If I delete the colon, the "w" deletes also.

Any guidance?
--
Terri