** Reply to message from "ccornell - OpenOffice.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:47:57 +0200
> > I am using OpenOffice v2.04 for Linux, and am very new with it. > > > > Most of what I want to use it for will be in English, but occasionally I > > need > > to write a document in Hebrew; I have Hebrew set up as the CTL language. I > > am > > using the fonts that came with openSuSE v10.2; i am assuming that these are > > Unicode fonts, and that they support a Hebrew character set, but I have no > > real > > basis for believing this. "Enabled for complex text layout" is checked, but > > is > > greyed out, which looks suspicious to me. > > > > In Tools > Options > LanguageSettings > Languages I see no way to toggle > > explicitly between Western and CTL languages. Simply setting alignment to > > the > > Right margin does not switch to CTL, but I didn't really expect it to do so. > > > > What have I overlooked? Or what have the writers of the documentation > > failed to > > make sufficiently explicit to penetrate my consciousness? > > > Hi Stan. I've looked into this a little. In the regular OpenOffice.org > 2.2.1 release the CTL checkbox is working (ie not greyed out) and I can > select a language for CTL. > > I am guessing you are using the Novell build of OpenOffice.org that came > with openSUSE 10.2. Have you asked this question on the openSUSE > mailing list yet? > > You could try adding in the OpenOffice.org repositories and installing > the latest Novell build (which will bring you up to 2.2.1). > http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#OpenOffice.org_STABLE > This may fix your problem. > > C. > -- > Clayton Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany Thank you for your suggestions, which I will investigate. You are correct -- I am using the OOo that came with openSuSE 10.2. Curiously, although the CTL checkbox is greyed out, it is also checked, so that it is difficult to interpret what being greyed out means. But now i have discovered that the problem seems not to be confined to OOo at all: In visiting an Israeli online telephone directory, I have found that I am unable to write Hebrew into the entry fields. This means to me that it is system-wide in the OS. Another user has pointed me to the need of installing "language packs" for each of the languages I am apt to use -- clumsy, but not unusual. I'll get to that in the next few days. I would not be surprised if it fixes the original problem as well. It may even un-grey the CTL checkbox. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
