[bt-devel] Hebrew text into OpenOffice?

[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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