[bt-devel] Hebrew text into OpenOffice?

[Christopher Meredith]

Okay, after several attempt to get Hebrew text from Bibletime or
GNOMESword into a word processor, I have found that neuither OpenOffice
nor AbiWord render the text correctly. Howqever, KWord does, althoug for
some reason, it is extremely buggy on my system, doesn't draw that pages
correctly sometimes, and has poor footnote placement. In AbiWord, the
text initially looks okay, but it prints out a mess.

Has anyone had any success with this task?

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 16:24 +0100, Martin Gruner wrote:
> 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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Christopher Meredith <theophile at saintmail.net>