[Biblical-languages] copying from DavkaWriter to Word

Peter Kirk peterkirk at qaya.org
Sun Aug 31 17:30:39 EDT 2003


On 30/08/2003 18:26, Bearpecs at aol.com wrote:

>
> This is a question about copying Hebrew text from DavkaWriter to MS Word.
>
> I am using Windows XP.  I recently upgraded to Word 2002 in Office 
> XP.  I use DavkaWriter Platinum 3.0.
>
> When I copy text in DavkaWriter (using "copy is for English program"), 
> the font, direction, and almost all formatting is exactly right.  (I 
> do need to change the direction of text to Right-to-Left to get it 
> aligned properly.)
>
> The problem is that the text does not wrap properly because it now 
> contains hard returns wherever the DavkaWriter text contained soft 
> returns.  For some reason, though, the position of these hard returns 
> looks different from the hard returns that appear where the 
> DavkaWriter text actually had hard returns.  The latter seem normal, 
> the former seem to be right on top of the last word in the line.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
> If not, is there a work around?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
In Word 2002, do you actually have hard returns, or just new line 
markers? Click the paragraph mark sign to show hidden marks. Hard 
returns become visible as paragraph marks, but new lines look like the 
arrow symbol on the return/enter key on your keyboard.

If you do have new line markers, you can eaily fix your text in Word by 
replacing all new line markers (^l in the find box) with spaces.

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Peter Kirk
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