On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:23, geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > It depends. I can't speak to it directly, my Hebrew level is such that a > crayon would be enough, but my son who is in high school was told by the > school to use Microsoft Office for Windows because there were capabilities > that he needed that Open Office (for Windows) did not provide for Hebrew. > > I asked him about it, and he assured me that was the case. Granted he is a > special student in a special school, but I am sure he is not unique. >
Please let me know what these features are, so that we can file OOo / LO bugs on them. You can call me, though I do not claim to _speak_ English as well as I write it: 054-7881700 > I do know from users on the various Macintosh groups that both Microsoft > Office for the Mac (a stripped down version without good Hebrew support) and > OpenOffice do not do a very good job of Hebrew formatting. Mac users have to > buy "niche" packages which do, but they do not run on any other platform. > Hebrew Open Office has some bugs, but nothing terrible. So does MS Office. I use OOo in Hebrew very often. Feel free to direct to me any OOo users that have trouble. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
