libreoffice+hebrew nikud

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:11, 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.
>

Like I said earlier, use the Lyx keyboard layout, not to be confused
with the LyX document processor. I use it with LibreOffice with no
issues at all. Shall I attach sample documents?



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