Open Office writer Hebrew Language

[neal jacobs <mn...@gmail.com>]

I presently use OO 4.2.1 writer English. I would like to have Hebrew as a
second language using the open office writer. Please advised me how I can
install the Hebrew language.
Thank you,
Neal Jacobs

Fwd: Open Office writer Hebrew Language

[neal jacobs <mn...@gmail.com>]

Please add this to my request to install Hebrew language into oo 4.2.1.I
have a Lenovo laptop computer with Microsoft 8.1 software
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: neal jacobs <mn...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:04 AM
Subject: Open Office writer Hebrew Language
To: users@openoffice.apache.org


I presently use OO 4.2.1 writer English. I would like to have Hebrew as a
second language using the open office writer. Please advised me how I can
install the Hebrew language.
Thank you,
Neal Jacobs

Re: Open Office writer Hebrew Language

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>]

At 08:04 22/12/2015 -0500, Neal Jacobs wrote:
>I presently use OO 4.2.1 writer English. I would like to have Hebrew 
>as a second language using the open office writer. Please advise me 
>how I can install the Hebrew language.

At 08:08 22/12/2015 -0500, Neal Jacobs wrote:
>I have a Lenovo laptop computer with Microsoft 8.1 software

I'm no expert in this, but I know enough to get you started. There 
are a number of separate things you need to do.

In OpenOffice:
o Go to Tools | Options... | Language Settings | Languages.
o Under "Enhanced language support", tick "Show UI elements for 
Bi-Directional writing". (Means "user interface".)
o Under "Default languages for documents", for CTL select Hebrew. 
(Means "complex text layout".) Note that you can choose this for 
documents generally or "For the current document only".
o OK.

You will now see two new buttons in the Formatting toolbar: 
Left-To-Right and Right-To-Left. At this point, you can create 
right-to-left Hebrew text in OpenOffice, which you can confirm using 
Insert | Special Character... . But you won't want to enter text in 
this laborious way, of course, so there is more to be done. You may 
have a Hebrew keyboard available, or you may be happy typing in 
Hebrew on your existing (Latin) keyboard that you use for typing in 
English. Either way, you will need to get your operating system to 
interpret your key presses appropriately.

In Windows:
o Go to Control Panel and click Language.
o Click "Add a language" and follow the instructions to add Hebrew.
(I don't have Windows 8.1 in front of me, so can't tell you the details.)

Once you have done this, you should se a language indicator (probably 
"EN" for English - and "HE" for Hebrew?) on your screen. Where is 
this in Windows 8.1: somewhere at the bottom or in the corner? You 
can now toggle between English and Hebrew by either clicking this 
language icon or using an appropriate keyboard shortcut. (This may be 
Left Alt+Shift.) This will change the way that Windows interprets key 
presses. Note that it doesn't matter what characters actually appear 
on the keyboard itself: Windows will interpret the top left of the 
letter keys as "Q" in English and a slash in Hebrew.

Now you can type in Hebrew fluently. But you will also want to check 
spelling in Hebrew. A Hebrew spelling dictionary is not bundled with 
the English version of OpenOffice, but you can obtain one as an extension from
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/hebrew-he-spell-check-dictionary 
. Note that you can mark different parts of a document as being in 
different languages (in a number of ways), so you could check text in 
English and Hebrew in the same document (if that is what you need to 
have) in a single pass.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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