2008/7/24 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
Thank you, I will try that next time I sit at that library. >> 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? Yes, and that's exactly the point that I wanted to make! To show that the problem is not elsewhere. >> 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. Excellent, thanks. > 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 see. These particular machines have only a default profile for every user, not one for each student. We don't log into them, we just reset them (or not) each time we arrive at one / leave one. -- 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?
