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yariva
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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: moving between languages keys |
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| when i'm in the middle of writing a document and want to change from hebrew to english what do i do? |
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helmerj
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: moving between languages keys |
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| yariva wrote: | | when i'm in the middle of writing a document and want to change from hebrew to english what do i do? |
Hi!
Well two things really I suppose. And how exactly would very much depend on your operating system...
1. Switch your keyboard layout from Hebrew to English which you will have to do on the OS side. Most OS's allow you to have a little taskbar icon indicating the current key board layout and a hot key to switch, some need a click on them...
2. Change the wrting direction from right to left to left to right. Since you write in Hebrew, I guess you have the CTL settings enabled in OpenOffice (Tools>options>Languages Settings) and have the CTL set to hebrew. This gives you two extra icons in the main toolbar. They are next to the "left, centered, right, and block" layout buttons on my Suse installation indicating the text direction with arrows. Click the appropiate one and the text direction changes.
Cheers Juergen |
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yariva
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: language cange when i cloe the aplication and open it again |
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i m working on mac os x that means that openoffice runs on x11.
only when i close oo and close x11 and change language in the small bar near the time and open oo again then i can write in a diffrent language. but i want to switch between languages without doing all this. |
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helmerj
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:43 am Post subject: Re: language cange when i cloe the aplication and open it ag |
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| yariva wrote: | i m working on mac os x that means that openoffice runs on x11.
only when i close oo and close x11 and change language in the small bar near the time and open oo again then i can write in a diffrent language. but i want to switch between languages without doing all this. |
Hi!
Ahh, I didn't know about the Mac stuff...
Just as a reminder: it is always a good idea around here, to tell people what version of OO you are using on which OS, since there are so many different version of OO out there. Whhic of course is a good thing...
So here it goes. Since you are using OO in a X11 setting, all the regular X11 stuff should apply. The taskbar applets that I did mention in my earlier post don't do anything else, they are just a wrapper.
The X11 command to use is this one here:
in order to get the hang of it, open a terminal window (a X11 window, not a macosx terminal) and type
this will show you the manual page of the command. the regular use is this one here, e.g. to get to a US layout:
to get back to an Israeli layout, enter this command:
All commands in the X11 terminal, of course. You could create desktop icons that would do this, by executing an X11 terminal, usually xterm and tell it to execute the command you want:
xterm -e 'setxkbmap us'
and another one
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xterm -e 'setxkbmap il'
That should do it. One could also write some apple script that would do that I suppose, which would find out the current layout and then switches to the other one, limiting the number of icons to click to only one..., but since I don't use a mac I wouldn't know how to do that in apple script...
Cheers Juergen |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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For purposes of spell check, here's how to set the document language in OOo 2.4.0 and before. (Sorry, not familiar with CTL specifically.)
Let me know how it goes.
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