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.
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