(Sorry for the rant, and I assume this is Unicode related, and not nisus fault. I really miss the ease of working with hebrew in Nisus Classic all the hebrew fonts worked well, all the hebrew fonts were listed together, cut and paste didn’t switch back to english, and if you highlighted the whole page and changed only the font in one language the other didn’t change. So I’ll continue to use Nisus for most of my work. But I would rather only use Nisus, since I seem to be able to find my way around better. I just bought Mellel, since I’m already working on my worksheets for September. I teach Hebrew reading, so Nikud is very important. Also with SBL Hebrew the Sin works but the Shin doesn’t. In NWE the Nikud is always in the wrong spot (to the left of the letter, even the dot in the Beit and Kof are outside the letter. SBL Hebrew and Ezra SIL - work properly only in Mellel. If I started up my computer in system 9 with Nisus Classic it worked fine.Ĭardo - works well except for the Final Nun (a nun at the end of a word) with a komatz, shows the komatz directly under the Final Nun. This is using NWE, or TextEdit (TextEdit always had the same results as NWE.) In Mellel the letter showed correct but the dot on top was squared - also not acceptable. But my main concern is I can’t get the Shin or Sin - It shows like Lucida Grande. When I use New Peninim my Nikud shows okay, except for a final Nun with a Komatz (the I and 7). It seems there’s still a way to go before Pages and other software reliably handles bidirectional text.įortunately Mellel continues to work well with Snow Leopard, and we’re looking forward to the release of Mellel 2.Thanks Mark, sorry I didn’t get back sooner, I was just trying to figure out my mess. So, in spite of the options, it’s not clear to me what’s actually changed. However, I couldn’t get a split cursor in Mail, and (as noted above), I’ve always had one in TextEdit. When right-to-left text is mixed with left-to-right text, it is called bidirectional text. When using certain right-to-left writing systems such as Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Persian, Pashto, and Urdu, you may need to quote words from left-to-right writing systems, such as English. In some applications, such as iChat, Mail, and TextEdit, you can change the direction of text from left-to-right to right-to-left and vice versa. So what’s changed? The International preference pane now includes a “Bidirectional Text” option under the “Input Sources” which contains a checkbox for “Use split cursor” and another for “Enable keyboard shortcuts.” The help says: Share snippet groups with TextExpander for iPhone and iPad for. Mixing Hebrew with English in Keynote previously made a serious mess of things, it may be slightly better, but it remains virtually impossible to reliably edit the Hebrew text because the cursor insists on appearing at one end or the other, not in the middle of the Hebrew if that’s where you’ve clicked. Allows capitalization correction in applications such as Mellel. Furthermore, Pages doesn’t handle mixing RTL with LTR any better than it previously did. Now TextEdit appears to operate the same way in 10.6 when mixing Hebrew and English, so it is not clear to me what has been changed. The top-right half indicates the insertion point in the L-t-R entry, the bottom-left half is the insertion point for the R-t-L entry. I’ve discreetly highlighted the two halves of the split cursor. If you were to try TextEdit and switch to Hebrew input in the midst of some English, you would see something like this: Now it is worth noting that the split cursor function already existed in 10.5. It also has a split-cursor option that shows the appropriate cursor direction at the boundary between right-to-left and left-to-right text. Apple’s own claim is this:įor languages that are written right to left, such as Hebrew and Arabic, Snow Leopard now elegantly handles mixing in left-to-right text. Well, Snow Leopard (MacOS X 10.6) is finally out, so it is time to see how it handles right-to-left languages (I’m primarily interested in Hebrew).
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