Reuven M. Lerner wrote:

Hi, guys.  I've been working toward getting CrossOver Office installed
with Hebrew, and it just about works.  I'm not sure whether the last
few problems I'm having have to do with CrossOver Office, Red Hat 8.0,
or the version of Word I'm using.

I'm installing Microsoft Office 2000 on Red Hat 8.0.  Mine comes with
a standard (English-language) CD, plus a second CD labeled "Hebrew
Language Pack."

- Setting LANG=he_IL was a really important step.  Thanks, Hetz, for
 suggesting it!

- Installing in my own home directory, and not as root, was also
 crucial.  Thanks, Daniel, for pointing that out!

- I installed CrossOver Office with

   $ export LANG=he_IL
   $ sh install-crossover-office-1.3.1.sh

 I accepted all of the defaults.  I exited.

- I then took Daniel's advice and installed Office separately, setting
 LANG locally just to be sure:

   $ LANG=he_IL ~/cxoffice/bin/officesetup

 Once again, I accepted all of the defaults.

- Now I started up Word, setting LANG locally again just to be sure:

   $ LANG=he_IL ~/cxoffice/bin/winword

The good news is that Word has the Hebrew/English paragraph buttons,
and I can type in Hebrew without any trouble at all.

The bad news is that typing in English works in a very funny way.  If
I try to type

   This is a sentence

then I get a space between "T" and "his".  Furthermore, when I type in
English, the cursor remains just after the capital letter that I typed
(in this case, the "T"), rather than showing me where the next
character will be inserted.

In other words, my experience so far indicates that CrossOver Office
works great in Hebrew (if installed with LANG=he_IL) and great in
English (if installed with LANG=en_US), but not so great if you want
both languages.

Do you have any further suggestions?  Am I missing something?

You must install the second CD as I indicated, to make the think work right. From that point you can type,
~/cxoffice/bin/msword or whatever without the LANG thing.


Reuven





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