Footnote Issues with Hebrew/English

germandanny · Post by **germandanny** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:58 am

Okay, here's my issue. I have no idea what is going on, but maybe someone could help me, please!?! Here's an example of what I type, and this only happens in footnote text, to my knowledge:

Hiph. inf. constr. (temporal) from ברא ref. to השׁמים והארץ + ...

And then—even here when I type it—it just happened again! This must be an issue with my input menu, or something. So at least it's not just in Mellel and just not in my footnotes.

Anyway, I still need help, and this involves Hebrew and English. Then I try to type a number after the "+" and the number and the "+" both jump immediately to before the preceding Hebrew text. Everything after that goes back to where it should be in the typing. For further example, here's what it looks like when that all happens:

Hiph. inf. constr. (temporal) from ברא ref. to השׁמים והארץ + 3ms suffix

I have no idea what to do, but I'm finding it difficult to make textual notes like I need to. Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Daniel

signinstranger · Post by **signinstranger** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:35 am

Have you tried <Ctrl> + <Space> to break the direction?

germandanny · Post by **germandanny** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:56 am

Wow, that worked—I'm back in business! Thanks so much.

jannuss · Post by **jannuss** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:49 pm

Mellel follows the standard convention of placing Left-toRight text inside Right-to-Left streams. You'll run into a lot of instances where the standard doesn't do what you want.

One solution is the direction-breaking space already recommended.

I prefer another solution, using the Character Appearance palette: set Direction to Right-to-Left or Left-to-Right as needed.

Janet