On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@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. > > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Feb 26 > 2012, > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |In Fortran, God is real unless > declared > http://nadav.harel.org.il |an integer. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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