This is not necessary. The macros do not work with raw RTF, where a language code would be necessary. Looking at the template macro, just add an extra line after the font is removed, eg:Ruchama wrote:edit: I think I have the answer - he should add "lang1037" in the macro to mark the hebrew text. right?
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Menu ':Format:Font:Remove Font Attribute'
Menu ':Format:Language:Hebrew'This is exactly what I have done in my program, which deal with raw RTF data. If the transformation can be done with Nisus macro, that would be great. I've seen the macro template, my question is how do I select all text with HebraicaII font attribute? In the template, there is a line Find '.+', 'Eua'. Since the comment says "Find all text marked in the old font", I guess this is to find text with specific font. Am I right? If so, what should I do for my case.What you will want to do is build up a macro that knows what Hebrew characters should be displayed for what latin characters.
This is right, but the problem is the vowel points' shifting when I use Ezra SIL or SBL hebrew font. Ruchama suggests New Peninim MT, this is ok for vowel points, but the accent marker still have problem. I know this is not Nisus' problem but Apple's.Just using the proper Unicode characters should make the layout engine respect the direction of characters in his text.
) just look at the direction.1. Select the whole Find '.+', 'Eua'William wrote:I've seen the macro template, my question is how do I select all text with HebraicaII font attribute? In the template, there is a line Find '.+', 'Eua'. Since the comment says "Find all text marked in the old font", I guess this is to find text with specific font. Am I right? If so, what should I do for my case.
What you want to mean is not clear to me. Enclose the whole sentence between U+202E and U+202C if you want to make it display as "ecnetnes desrever a si sihT".Can someone tell me, how to use directionality maker when I type "This is a reversed sentence" and get the result "This is sentence reversed a" ?
You are right. As Kino outlined above you want to select that "Find" line and apply your HebraicaII font.William wrote:I've seen the macro template, my question is how do I select all text with HebraicaII font attribute? In the template, there is a line Find '.+', 'Eua'. Since the comment says "Find all text marked in the old font", I guess this is to find text with specific font. Am I right? If so, what should I do for my case.
Yes, this is unfortunately not something Nisus can solve, not even if you insert directionality markers. Apple's placement of Hebrew points/accents is simply incorrect for some fonts. Hopefully you can find a font that meets your needs.This is right, but the problem is the vowel points' shifting when I use Ezra SIL or SBL hebrew font. Ruchama suggests New Peninim MT, this is ok for vowel points, but the accent marker still have problem. I know this is not Nisus' problem but Apple's.
I really would recommend against using these pre-Unicode fonts with latin characters that require manual overrides of the direction and/or character order. They aren't going to translate well to other applications, and as you've seen, they cause problems when the font is unavailable (displaying as garbage instead of Hebrew).William wrote:Now you know what I am concerned, if I choose latin code and use HebraicaII font, the problem is the direction when line wrap. Or if I choose Unicode, though the previous problem will be solve by system, the other problem is I can't find a suitable unicode font. Either way, I need to do conversion whether change the latin to unicode or the latin characters' sequence.