On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:05, + Bernard Bychan wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > Hi > Last Monday I sent an email concerning the problem of typing right to > left. Does anybody know an answer? > Here is my text once more: > How can I type from left to right, as it is needed for Hebrew or Arabic? > I found some explanation about using the CTL-Mode (Complex Text Layout). > If CTL is active, one can activate "right-to-left" by clicking on the icon > with the arrow pointing to the left. > But to my mind, what I get is not correct: The Cursor is positioned at the > right side, which is what I expected. But the characters typed in are > always placed at the right side of the cursor instead of the left side. > I mean: If you type in e.g. "OpenOffice" in RTL (right to left) mode, > "eciffOnepO" should appear. > Does anybody know if there is a way to activate "real" RLT-mode?
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Friday 05 January 2007 21:29, M Henri Day wrote: > The Help section in my Swedish OOo 2.0.4 version, informed me that I could > input letters from right to left for four languages - Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, > and Arabic - by using Ctrl + Right-shift. Unfortunately, I know none of > these languages, but thought that I might be able to recognise the first > graphs in the Hebrew alphabet. But when I depressed the keys mentioned > above, I found that SCIM, which I use to write Chinese and Japanese, by > default selected a non-CJK language which is written from right to left. > When I changed the default selection to Hebrew (M17N-he-kbd) and typed > a-b-c on my Swedish version of a QWERTY keyboard, with the following > results : > > שנע > > which I must admit was not quite what I had expected. The cursor started at > the extreme left of the page, but the letters were imported from right to > left, i e, first ש, then נ, and finally, ע. It would seem to me that this > method of inserting graphs ought to work for those writing in these > languages.... > > Moreover, I also found that the ability to write these languages from right > to left was not dependent on using OOo ; once having selected the language > in SCIM, I could do so as easily in this gmail message, which I found very > handy, as it eliminated the need to cut and paste. > > The above procedure may not, however, work for those using a Windows > machine ('m using Ubuntu) ; in any event I have no experience using SCIM on > such a machine, having always employed Microsoft's own IME system. But as > James Su, the SCIM developer, who is located at Qinghua University in > Beijing, has proclaimed support for as many operative systems as possible > as one of the goals for SCIM, it is not impossible that that supprt for > Windows does exist ; I have not, however, been able to find a download for > that system.... > > Henri > > PS : For any developers out there, it would also be useful to be able to > type CJK languages from right to left as well, in the event that a simple > keyboard code could enable such a feature.... Please reply to users@openoffice.org only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]