Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Paul Zellmer <zellmer AT cag.pworld.net.ph>]

Moon-Ryul Jung wrote:

> Dear List members,
>
> I have encountered some problems with editing Hebrew text
> in Word Processors e.g. MS Word and WordPad. We are supposed
> to set the font to a Hebrew font,e.g. SHebrew, RHebrew, SPTiberian,
> and then type in Hebrew letters according to the keyboard coding of
> the selected font.
>
> When I type in words, the position of the cursor is different
> from where the letter is inserted or added. It tends to confuse
> me, especially when I modify what I wrote. Does any person had
> a similar experience, and if so, how can I handle this problem?
>
> Respectfully,
> Moon-Ryul Jung
> Assistant Professor
> Dept of Computer Science
> Soongsil University
> Seoul, Korea
>
>

Moon,

I know you'll get some responses that will tell you to get the Israeli 
version of
Windows, but that isn't really an option for us, is it?  What I do is a bit 
of a
work-around.  SIL has a downloadable macro with its Hebrew fonts at 
www.sil.org (in
the computing resources area.  This macro, called reverse.dot, reverses the 
selected
text.  I type the characters in from left to right and then reverse them.  To 
edit, I
reverse the section I want to change, change it, then reverse it again.

It may not be elegant, but it solves the problem.

HTH,

Paul

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