At 14:26 24/07/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I was happily surprised to find Open Office 2.0 installed in a few computers in my faculty's library. However, the Formatting toolbar does not have the Right-To-Left and Left-To-Right buttons enabled (NOT the text align buttons, those are enabled, but rather the language direction buttons). I click on the dropdown arrow and select the RTL and LTR buttons, and they appear for a second and disappear again. Also, in the Customize Toolbar dialog I enable the buttons, and they appear checked, but never show up on the toolbar itself.
I fancy you will know more about text direction than I do, but I find that these buttons appear (and resolutely so) when you have Tools | Options... | Language Settings | Languages | Enhanced language support | Enabled for complex text layout (CTL) ticked - and they refuse to appear otherwise.
These computers are running Windows XP Professional in the English language, but they are Hebrew enabled (I can type and view Hebrew documents just fine).
Doesn't that just mean that your keyboard drivers are correctly set up - but not necessarily OpenOffice?
In the meantime, how do I change a paragraph from LTR to RTL? I thought that it would be in the Format -> Paragraph dialog, but there is no relevant option in any of the tabs there.
As you suggest, the option is at Format | Paragraph... | Alignment | Properties | Text direction. But again, the Properties element of the Alignment panel appears only when complex text layout has been enabled.
I suppose it is worth mentioning that configuration settings such as this are stored (under Windows) in the user's profile, so each user will presumably need to tick the relevant box when they first need the facility. And, if you have local rather than roaming profiles, again on each system!
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
