DavkaWriter or Dagesh With Wine or Crossover

[Moshe Brace using Yahoo]

It's a matter of curiosity of trying new things. I remember reading within the linux-il lists that some people thought that Open Office didn't cover all their needs like MS Office. This brought me to try to see why this is so.. Then I found that altogether although MS Office showed the Right-to Left and Left to Right Buttons with Crossover it doesn't behave correctly as Open Office. For example I found that at the cursor it behaved as though it was typing in English. For example, בא instead of אב eventhough the paragraph mark was correctly placed. I do not know whether it is the Mandriva playing games with the programme or Crossover, but if Open Office works correctly it must be that Crossover has difficulty with Hebrew, or some Chametz got into the Keyboard.

On checking Properties for the Setup.exe for Davka I saw that it showed as root is the owner. Probably this is correct. Installation does not complete in Crossover or Wine. I have a feeling that this programme needs a version of .net to be installed first. As I mention this is a matter of curiosity and not of great importance as I find Open Office an excellent programme. I doubt that for Linux there's anything to compare with it. 

Regarding Tables I noticed that if you paste Hebrew from Word into Open Office you get all the formatting details in the margin free area outside the cells; I am not so sure why Open Office needs to behave this way, but it does. What I had done in Word was paste into the right column some Hebrew text and English in the left column of the table. Then copy out to of it to paste into Open Office. I think the reason for this was being unable to paste directly into Open Office without an inbetween programme. Some programmes do not let you paste from certain sources.. 

Diversing a little: One of the things that they could have perfected in Open Office which is left to an Add in is the picture cropping option. This is more of a hit and miss regarding getting that right when cropping. But that is as I have written above digressing from the subject. 

Shabbat Shalom
Moshe

--- On Fri, 17/4/09, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail..com> wrote:

> From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: DavkaWriter or Dagesh With Wine or Crossover
> To: "Moshe Brace using Yahoo" <mbrace700 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Friday, 17 April, 2009, 5:05 PM
> 2009/4/17 Moshe Brace using Yahoo
> <mbrace700 at yahoo.co.uk>:
> >
> > Anybody got this to work with Crossover or Wine? I am
> looking for an alternative if one exits other than Open
> Office for Hebrew Texting. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Recently I tried Office 2003 and found that in Tables
> Hebrew came up as Left to Right I presume this is the fault
> of Crossover. Does Abbyword behave any better?
> >
> 
> Moshe, off list.. I'd like to know what you find problematic
> with OOo.
> Better yet, start a thread on the list on the subject and
> CC me, so
> that other people can help as well. I find OOo to work just
> fine for
> Hebrew, I use it regularly.
> 
> -- 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
>