Problem Typing Hebrew (solved)

[lodp]

Hi y'all,

My Problem was solved in the process of typing this, I'm posting this anyway, so that the solution will turn up when somebody does a forum search.

When I switched my keyboard to Hebrew, it worked beautifully in pretty much all applications. But in OpenOffice, i only got small empty squares, no matter which font I chose.

I'm working on Ubuntu 5.10 with KDE. I had got CTL enabled in OO, Culmus 0.101-2 was installed, the metapackage for Hebrew language support was installed, as were spell-checker packages (myspell, hspell).

The Problem existed only in my English installation of Openoffice 2.02 (it didn't work in 2.01 and 1.9x either). I tried to install the Hebrew version of OO (from openoffice.org.il, my Hebrew just sufficed to do that) - and it worked there. But I needed to be able to use the English edition with Hebrew.

Turns out it was a fonts problem. The Culmus version that I used wasn't compatible with Openoffice. I downgraded Culmus from 0.101-2 to 0.93 and -!מזל טוב it worked. All the fonts are there in the selector now - Frank Ruehl, Nachieli etc.

You can find versions of culmus up to 0.100 on the culmus sourceforge page files here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=59410).
There's only .rpm packages there unfortunately. I used alien <filename> to convert the thing to a .deb file and then sudo dpkg -i <filename> to install.

there's supposed to be 0.101-4 unstable release, but the links on http://culmus.sourceforg.org are dead, and i can't seem to find it elsewhere. In the meantime I'll stick with 0.93.

so long!

[Efrat]

Hello,

I'm using OO2 on Ubuntu 5.10. In OO.Writer, I see "transparent" Hebrew when I type (in other words, I don't see anything - the cursor moves and that's all she wrote). All other apps seem to display Hebrew fine. For emphasis: אין בעיה בשאר האפליקציות. Your reply seemed the most relevant, but I suck at linux - I just know to run synaptic (in synaptic, I searched for Hebrew, then installed everything). So when you write about downgrading culmus, I just don't know how to do it. Could you please help out?

Thanks,

Efrat

[lodp]

sure thing, pal

i actually discovered a way in which you don't have to downgrade to 0.93. it all seems to be a problem with the place that OO checks for fonts. culmus 0.102 seems to install the fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 - but OO doesn't find them there. so i just placed a link of that folder in /usr/share/fonts/ - where OO apparently DOES find them.

placing a link is pretty much like copying a folder, only it's easier to keep the folders in sync - when there's an update on the fonts, for example.

btw, OO doesn't seem to work so great for vowel placement, i started a thread on that HERE

[Efrat]

ln'd the stuff, and it worked like a charm!

Many Thanks,
תודה רבה

Efrat

[AndyKC]

I have just installed OpenOffice 2.0 on Windows 2000 in my native English on and want to type Hebrew in a Writer document. I've read the previous posts, but I don't understand the talks of culmus and other references. How do I most simply enable typing of Hebrew fonts?

I've gotten into the CTL options and specified Hebrew as the default font for a CTL document, but I can't figure out how to make my document get into CTL mode.

I can change the text flow to Right-to-Left and select what should be a Hebrew font (Aharoni, David), but the text just stays in English letters although it goes from right to left.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!
Andy

[Robert Tucker]

Maybe you need to switch to a Hebrew keymap?

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/winkey.html#switch

[AndyKC]

Thank you! That worked.

In Windows 2000, the Control Panel for Keyboard allowed me to specify "Hebrew" as an input locale.

Thanks for the fast feedback!