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by jannuss
Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:15 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: A Mellel PDF becomes unintelligible
Replies: 13
Views: 15348

Re: A Mellel PDF becomes unintelligible

-- Export as pdf probably works directly with some standard pdf conversion utility -- Print as pdf probably also works directly with some standard conversion utility I've always assumed these two were the same, but Eyal seems to imply that they are not I turned on Activity monitor while exporting, t...
by jannuss
Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:13 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: A Mellel PDF becomes unintelligible
Replies: 13
Views: 15348

Re: A Mellel PDF becomes unintelligible

I had something similar when I tried to print a pdf generated by WORD which I received from a large organization. My printer -- who was able to print it -- explained that the cause was unusual/special-purpose fonts. I suspect the PC/Mac divide may have contributed to the problem. Are you using speci...
by jannuss
Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:32 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Quote Marks in Hebrew?
Replies: 5
Views: 8930

Re: Quote Marks in Hebrew?

Andrew, You've given me a lot of food for thought -- I never bothered to differentiate between apostrophe and gerish before. Most of the fonts I use are purchased from Israeli foundries. Here too there is no common ground. The people at fontbit, for example, define straight or curved marks depending...
by jannuss
Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:43 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Quote Marks in Hebrew?
Replies: 5
Views: 8930

Re: Quote Marks in Hebrew?

And, Andrew, once you solve the problem of quotes, there are a few other issues you will have to address 1. Transliteration: writing a foreign word in Hebrew characters can be difficult if you don't have the right characters. For example, my name, Janet. There is no "J" character in Hebrew...
by jannuss
Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:13 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Quote Marks in Hebrew?
Replies: 5
Views: 8930

Re: Quote Marks in Hebrew?

And, by the way, please, please, please don't use Times New Roman.

It has a long history of creating problems with right-to-left text.

Newer versions of the font are generally OK. but you never know when you are going to fall on an older version.
by jannuss
Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:10 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Quote Marks in Hebrew?
Replies: 5
Views: 8930

Re: Quote Marks in Hebrew?

Andrew, Short answer: all good modern Hebrew fonts include both straight and curved or slanted quote marks. Straight marks may be more common, but curved/slanted left and right quote marks are also used. Upper/lower quotes are not generally used. Long answer: I don't know what the official solution ...
by jannuss
Fri Nov 09, 2018 1:23 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: All text in italics on Ipad version of document
Replies: 1
Views: 4286

Re: All text in italics on Ipad version of document

I'd first check to make sure that all the fonts you use on your MACOS version of Mellel are available on the iPad.
Next, I'd check that the style sets were transferred over correctly.

Janet
by jannuss
Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:22 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Hebrew word breaks at end of line character
Replies: 7
Views: 6845

Re: Hebrew word breaks at end of line character

This behavior isn't surprising. It arrives with its own paragraph style which probably has hyphenation turned off.
As I said, there is rarely a need to hyphenate Hebrew text.

Janet
by jannuss
Sun Sep 23, 2018 5:59 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Hebrew word breaks at end of line character
Replies: 7
Views: 6845

Re: Hebrew word breaks at end of line character

Mark, if I understand you correctly, you are seeing hyphenation of single Hebrew characters even when you have the custom limits set to the defaults word length = 5 before hype = 2 after hyphen = 2 If that's the case, then what we have here is a bug, plain and simple. Send a bug report and sample do...
by jannuss
Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:31 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Hebrew word breaks at end of line character
Replies: 7
Views: 6845

Re: Hebrew word breaks at end of line character

OK, Mark, several things First, just my opinion, unless you really need to cram a lot of text into a small space, hyphenation in Hebrew is unnecessary. I hardly ever see it used except in the newspaper. Now, to your specific issue 1. The problem shouldn't be associated with the kind of general style...
by jannuss
Fri Sep 21, 2018 3:56 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Hebrew word breaks at end of line character
Replies: 7
Views: 6845

Re: Hebrew word breaks at end of line character

I've never seen such strange behavior with Hebrew. A little more information please: -- is this the only document with this behavior or do all your Hebrew documents have the problem? -- is this a Hebrew [left-ti-right] document or is the Hebrew embedded in English [right-to-left] text? -- what font(...
by jannuss
Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:49 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Create placeholder for Hebrew vowels
Replies: 10
Views: 13907

Re: Create placeholder for Hebrew vowels

Wow, what a strange keyboard! Alef on the shift?? I touch-type using the standard Israeli keyboard layout which is what Apple offers with "Hebrew" input. Like QWERTY, this layout was created by typewriter manufacturers way back when and is what is taught in the schools here. Getting back t...
by jannuss
Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:34 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Create placeholder for Hebrew vowels
Replies: 10
Views: 13907

Re: Create placeholder for Hebrew vowels

Darryl,

My experience is that this sometimes works with Ezra, but never with SBL

Could you explain how you defined the space-holder character.

Janet
by jannuss
Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:52 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Create placeholder for Hebrew vowels
Replies: 10
Views: 13907

Re: Create placeholder for Hebrew vowels

Sorry, sorry, there's a step I forgot to explain: When you select the dotted circle from the Character Viewer window, you can't simply chose the "parve" 25CC glyph. You have to select the correct Font Variation for the font you are using -- for Ezra, the Ezra variation; for SBL Hebrew, the...
by jannuss
Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:15 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Create placeholder for Hebrew vowels
Replies: 10
Views: 13907

Re: Create placeholder for Hebrew vowels

Mark, I sent a reply earlier today explaining what you just said -- for some reason it didn't get through to the forum. Short answer: the solution depends on the font you are using, not the keyboard. With much difficulty, I was able to force Ezra SIL to place vowels correctly under a the dotted circ...