I apologize for not having seen this thread sooner. Here is a document which explains why you see what you do, and how to work with it rather than against it. The concepts are really quite simple, but not intuitive: http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html
You are invited to contact me at any time with questions. Some examples of proper mixed Hebrew and English: Hello, יהונתן, how are you? שלום, Jonathan, מה שלומך? English at the beginning, עברית בסוף. עברית בהתחלה, English at the end. Because plain-text email does not even have a concept of alignment, the alignment of the Hebrew sentences depends on your renderer (email client or web browser). Most likely, they will all be left-aligned. Note however that alignment and directionality are different concepts. In all cases, the punctuation should be at the proper end of the sentence. In order to have Hebrew texts right-aligned in email, I would have to have sent an HTML email. In LibreOffice you shouldn't have such an issue. LibreOffice, unlike email, has a concept of alignment. On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Jonathan Allen <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
