<div dir="ltr">just to note - this is an American laptop with no engraved Hebrew chars on the keyboard. i meant installing the Israel layout (in Keyboards). as i said, Hebrew works out of the box, and libreoffice does a good work in changing directions. other apps sometimes have problems with directions.<br>
<br>Ehud<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Ruben Safir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruben@mrbrklyn.com">ruben@mrbrklyn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:28:09PM -0700, Ehud Kaldor wrote:<br>
> with Ubuntu and Hebrew keyboard installed, it pretty much works. the<br>
> direction change button in LibreOffice does redirection of commas,<br>
> semicolons and such. had the same experience with Fedora a while ago.<br>
><br>
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</div>Yeah, i don't understand this. there is no difference in the keyboard<br>
other than the little panted letters.<br>
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> Ehud<br>
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> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Ruben Safir <<a href="mailto:ruben@mrbrklyn.com">ruben@mrbrklyn.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > How do you type Hebrew in libreoffice. I've done a bit of googling on<br>
> > this, and come up with fonts and intructions to reverse the direction,<br>
> > but no means to actually type the letters in the application. I see in<br>
> > KDE you can remap the keyboard. I don't use KDE and frankly I'm puzzled<br>
> > about the need to remap the keyboard.<br>
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So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998<br>
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<a href="http://fairuse.nylxs.com" target="_blank">http://fairuse.nylxs.com</a> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002<br>
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"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"<br>
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"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society."<br>
<br>
"> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<<br>
You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one."<br>
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