Hebrew Under crossover

[Dotan Cohen]

> Very different. Math is a complete no go, hebrew and english is a mess,
> mixed hebrew/english documents and numbers are rarely imported properly,
> enumerations are messed up completely and changing the document language to
> hebrew to match the original permutes tab aligned ellements
>

Are you talking about documents created with Word then opened in OOo,
or documents created in OOo then opened in Word. With the former I
understand your point, but for the later I have had no problems (I
have not tried math).

>> > 2) Convince your collaborators to use Open Office. This is suprisingly
>> > easy, many people are willing to get rid of MS Office. Although I
>> > personally prefer MS Office and use OOo out of necessity (Linux user),
>> > I find that most people prefer OOo for some reason, once they see it.
>> > Go figure.
>>
>
> Tried using personally but sad to say it's incredibly unstable in terms of
> styles and I still haven't managed to find out how to change the
> headers/footers mid way through the document, something that is very easy with
> word.
>
> On the other hand I'm using lyx almost exclusively so who am I to talk ...
>

I tried to get into Lyx but I had a hard time with Hebrew, davka (what
is "davka" in English).

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Dotan Cohen

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