On 17/03/2008, Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I did not realize that there is a gershayim character. How is it > > typed? If I can simply type it like a doublequote than that's fine, > > but if it involves typing unicode characters (or cutting and pasting) > > then that is out of the question. > > > > Where in the spellchecker was the suggestion to add the quote to > > MIDLETTER? I don't see that. My OOo install is in English, is yours? > > Any chance of a screenshot (even in private mail)? > > > My OOo install is in English. > > The message appears in the "Not in dictionary" box and reads: > > > For Hebrew, a tailoring may include a double quotation mark between > letters, because legacy data may contain that in place of U+05F4 (״) > gershayim.
I do not have that text in the "not in dictionary" box. > The word "gershaym" is in red and clicking on it replaces the Latin > typewriter double quotation mark with the proper gershayim character. > > Then the "Not in dictionary" box changes to read: > > > This can be done by adding double quotation mark to MidLetter. > > > The word "MidLetter" is in red, and clicking on it apparently fixes the > problem by adding the double quote mark as an acceptable middle letter > in Hebrew (even though it really isn't an acceptable middle letter in > Hebrew, although gershayim is). > > I don't know what operating system you use and what keyboard you use, so > don't know whether or not gershayim is already available to you from > your keyboard. According to http://www.ivritype.com/hebrew/kbd/ the > standard Windows Hebrew and Macintosh keyboards appear to lack it. (But > you might check by pressing all your keys one after the other shifted > and non-shifted, with the right ALT key or OPTION key held down, and see > what you get.) I'm using KDE on Ubuntu Linux. However there should be a way to add the doublequote character to midletter. I've just spent quite some time googling, and I've yet to find the answer, but I'm looking. > You can edit your virtual keyboard to add gerashayim. (For Windows, the > keyboard editor can be downloaded from > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx .) > > You can then modify your virtual Hebrew keyboard and assign U+05F4 > GERSHAYIM and any other missing Hebrew characters you want to use to > whatever keys you want. > > Hebrew characters available in Unicode are found at > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0590.pdf and > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB00.pdf . Though every font will > probably not have all these characters. I cannot use a virtual keyboard as I have trouble manipulating the mouse. I will continue to search for the method of adding the doublequote, as in contrast to the article's assertation that only legacy documents use it, I am unaware of any document that does not. Thank you very much, Jim. תודה רבה Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
