[Biblical-languages] Hebrew Unicode in Word

Christopher J Samuel christopher_samuel at sil.org
Wed Aug 18 14:30:54 EDT 2004


Peter's solution works but why not use a maqqeph? I assume that, if you are 
using Hebrew in Word, you have your text services framework set up with a 
keyboard. Type a maqqeph and you can do it in one.

At 12:39 18/08/2004, you wrote:
>On 18/08/2004 06:19, Tim Bulkeley wrote:
>
>>Hi, can anyone help me. We are working on a project to develop a 
>>collaborative Hebrew vocabulary tool. For the prototype I need to give 
>>Hebrew words in Unicode to the programmers with the syllables marked. We 
>>planned to do this by introducing spaces between syllables (since we are 
>>dealing in this field with single words there is no problem with this).
>>However, when in MS Word I put a space into the Hebrew word the two parts 
>>arrange themselves left-to-right instead of right-to-left.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong!?
>Probably you need to make the entire paragraph right-to-left. Or if this 
>text is embedded in a mostly left-to-right paragraph e.g. English text, 
>you need to apply a right-to-left override to this section. The SIL ABS 
>macros available from 
>http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=RTL_in_MSOffice 
>offer a convenient way of doing this.
>
>This assumes you are using Word 2000 or later on Windows 2000 or XP. 
>Earlier versions may have other problems.
>
>
>--
>Peter Kirk
>peter at qaya.org (personal)
>peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
>http://www.qaya.org/
>
>
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