[scribus] Hebrew

[William F. Maddock]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 12:14 +0200, Joop wrote:
> Besides my previous question about mixing Dutch and Hebrew in one 
> paragraph, I have more problems with Hebrew text. I use arial in Windows 
> XP. The text in the story editor goes from right to left when I choose 
> Hebrew as my keyboard. But when I put the text in the text frame all 
> letters show up in reversed order, and also not right alined.
> In the properties I see a button with a reversed R (why isn't that 
> button present in the strory editor?), but that doesn't help to change.

> I want to make at least a paragraph style to type Hebrew in the story 
> editor that works properly.

When I mix Greek and/or Hebrew into a normal (English, in my case)
paragraph, I simply use a Greek or Hebrew font, and type the characters
in with my English keyboard. I'm sure the same method could be extended
to a short paragraph of pure Hebrew or Greek as well (though I wouldn't
try for long passages).