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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Right to Left Processing
  • Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:27:47 +0100

On 07/08/2006 23:11, Christopher V. Kimball wrote:
MS Word 2002 (10.6804.6804) SP3 and Open Office 2.0 seem to work fine on Windows 2000 system. Both accept cuts and pastes from the Unicode/XML Tanach without problem. Getting the correct keyboard may be a problem. With an Israeli keyboard and the appropriate Windows Language module, you can switch between English and Hebrew very easily. Finding the key combinations for vowels may be a problem, but they're there. Cantillation marks are not available that I know of. .

Windows 2000 and XP offer full support for right to left languages including Hebrew - but the support does need to be installed from Control Panel - Regional and Language Options - Languages (these instructions for XP).

Word in Microsoft Office 2000 and later provides full Hebrew word processing capabilities on Windows 2000 and XP with right to left language support enabled. Again, this support does need to be explicitly enabled, via Start - All Programs - Microsoft Office - Microsoft Office Tools - Microsoft Office Language Settings.

This support includes (very nearly) all Hebrew required for the Hebrew Bible, including cantillation marks, in Windows XP with the latest service pack installed, if an appropriate font is selected. Cantillation marks may be misplaced in older versions of Windows. As appropriate fonts I can recommend as free downloads Ezra SIL, from http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=EzraSIL_Home, and SBL Hebrew from http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/default.aspx. Both of these come as packages which include useful keyboarding utilities, based on transliteration. It is also possible to use the Microsoft supplied Israeli keyboard driver, but this is hard to use without a physical keyboard, and its support for vowel points is inconvenient and for cantillation marks non-existent.

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Peter Kirk
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