![]() ![]() the hebrew letters are still overlapping eachother, which makes it unreadable. i can't install the hebrew language pacakge, so for now there are no proofing tools for hebrew.ī. so i sticked with the english version, and it works, but with 2 flaws:Ī. after this - when i tried to install the hebrew version of office it did install, but crashes on init (probably the unicode rendering takes to much). Todo: find how to do this without winetricks, and if all the mentioned fonts are required (probably not)ģ. i've tried to install them from crossover,but didn't succeeded, so i've used winetricks for the trick, and there i've added usp10 dll, and some fonts (unifont, red had font, tahoma and lucid) to add the rendering of the hebrew letters (so we can read and not have empty squares for hebrew letters), we need to things: uniscribe dll (usp10.dll) and hebrew fonts. that will make your win7 os defined in the hebrew language, and allow you to use hebrew language.Ģ. first of all - to support the hebrew language - edit the file "bottle_path/nf", look for the section with "EnvironmentVariables", add a line in that section that says: "LANG" = "he_IL.UTF-8" (with the double qoutes). It may take some trial and error before you become comfortable with it, but you have it now and you can switch back and forth between Hebrew and English in the same document with ease.If you want to support hebrew in office 2016, what worked for me was as follows (i've tested it only on Word,but it should be the same for all the office softwares):ġ. Go to the gray area when you open this Forum and go through “BibleWorks Customer Support FAQs” à “Troubleshooting” à “Fonts and Keyboard Issues” and read and follow “How Can I Key Hebrew Text into BibleWorks or a Word Processor?” ![]() Fortunately BW8 uses SBL Hebrew fonts, and I am now using it along with normal English in MS Word 2007.īasically this is what to do. This way you can map out all the Hebrew letters, vowel points included.īecause of the awkwardness of typing a Hebrew word backward, I decided to use Unicode Hebrew. I made a keyboard layout table by first typing English alphabet QWERT, for example, and on the next line qw ert, and so on. ![]() And I forgot all the details now, but I think you might try this.īwhebb is alright but you have to type the words backward in your MS Word 2007, and that can be vexing. I think I had the same experience some time ago as you are having now. ![]() Windows and Word are designed for using Unicode and you'll get the best results using a Unicode Hebrew font. But you need to make sure that if you are using one of those older fonts, you copy/paste using the older encoding. I know they moved forward with the times, but I don't know the names of the various newer Unicode BibleWork fonts. As I recall, there is a setting in preferences to do that.īibleWorks, being one of the pioneers in Bible software, had (has?) older fonts before the advent of Unicode. Then you can edit the pasted text for what you want.Īlso, I'm no expert on BibleWorks since I don't normally use Windows, but some one here for sure can tell you exactly how: copy and paste from BibleWorks into Word making sure your copy is using Unicode encoding for Hebrew. If your purpose is to type biblical Hebrew words, especially with vowels and accents, then.don't! It's already been done for you! Just go to find the verse/words you want and copy and paste (or download the files to your local machine). You'll find not only the font, but keyboard drivers and detailed documentation.ģ. My personal favorite is SBL Hebrew, because that font was professionally built specifically for the Hebrew Bible. There are a bunch of fonts out there that you can use. You may have to turn on Hebrew language support from the control panel.Ģ. For Windows XP, Vista and 7, this is the default. Always use Unicode encoding (utf-8) for your documents. My day job includes using biblical Hebrew in all kinds of programs and operating systems. ![]()
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