libreoffice+hebrew nikud

[Mordechai Behar]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012, Arie Skliarouk wrote about "libreoffice+hebrew
> nikud":
> > I am concerned on the nikud part, e.g. how well libreoffice supports it.
> > Googling shows rendering issues. The https://bugs.freedesktop.org is
> down
>
> In my experience, the quality of the niqqud rendering directly depends
> on the font. For example, the free Culmus fonts, notably David and Frank
> Reuhl, show niqqud very well. Note that Culmus's Frank Reuhl used to
> have problems rendering niqqud, until the last Culmus release fixed
> these problems.
>
> One problem I do have with niqqud - and maybe other people can suggest a
> solution - is how to type them. What I usually do is to cut-and-paste
> words with niqqud from other texts (or an online dictionary). I never
> figured out how to set up a keyboard mapping or something to
> conveniently type niqqud.
>

The DejaVu fonts also support nikkud pretty well (some nikkudim better than
others).
My only experience with nikkud was to occasionally insert a single nikkud
where necessary, and for that Insert>Special character was enough (select
Basic Hebrew in the Subset pulldown menu).


>
> Nadav.
>
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