[bt-devel] Hebrew text into OpenOffice?

[Martin Gruner]

Or perhaps KOffice.

mg

Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 16:24 schrieb Martin Gruner:
> I am not sure, but it would be worth a try!
> Let us know the results,
>
> mg
>
> Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 15:37 schrieb Christopher Meredith:
> > Hi,
> >  If I were using AbiWord, would that solve the problem?
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:28 +0100, Martin Gruner wrote:
> > > Christopher,
> > >
> > > the problem is that OOO uses libfreetype2 for the rendering, and
> > > BibleTime / Gnomesword use their respective toolkits, which do a better
> > > job on Hebrew. I don’t think it’ll work 100% in OOO until libfreetype2
> > > is being fixed...
> > >
> > > Sorry.
> > >
> > > mg
> > >
> > > Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 07:11 schrieb Christopher Meredith:
> > > > (sorry for the previous, messed up post!)
> > > >
> > > > Hello All!
> > > >  I am trying to get Numbers 20:1-13 in Hebrew, with vowels and
> > > > cantillation marks, into OpenOffice Writer. This is proving to be a
> > > > very, very difficult task. Copying and pasting from either BibleTime
> > > > or GnomeSword into OpenOffice yields gibberish characters. In
> > > > BibleTime I can save the chapter to HTML, but when it displays in
> > > > either a web browser or OpenOffice, the placement of the vowels and
> > > > cantillation marks is all wrong; they appear offset. Does anyone know
> > > > how I can go about doing this? Big thanks in advance! Amm my fellow
> > > > seminary students are using BibleWorks 6 and I'd like to not have to
> > > > succumb to outrageous commercial software to something as seemingly
> > > > simple as this. Even my professor who uses a Mac says it's as easy as
> > > > copy and paste. Again, thanks in advance and thanks for such awesome
> > > > software!
> > > >
> > > > ~Christopher
> > >
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