[bt-devel] Hebrew text into OpenOffice?

[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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