Thank you Igor and Knut. I will pass this on to the interested parties. - Simi ————————————————————— Simeon Chavel Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible The University of Chicago Divinity School 1025 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637 tel.: +1.773.702.6387 fax: +1.773.702.6048 http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/chavel.shtml ————————————————————— On Feb 16, 2011, at 2:22 AM, Igor Kramberger wrote: > Hi to all, > > Simi asked: > >> Do you know whether LO has strong multilingual capabilities, i.e., rtl (Hebrew, Arabic, etal)? Footnoting? Powerful F/R? > I will answer in a reverse order: > > -- there is an extension for more powerful Find / Replace: if it is comparable with what we are used to use in NW (Classic or Pro), I can not tell: I just found it today; > > <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List> > <http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/AltSearch> but I am not sure, if all of this is also possible for the R/L languages > > -- footnotes / endnotes are possible, also commenting during reviewing > > -- according to the Help (I have read the translation into Slovene) you can enable suppoort for the complex language setup, this includes R/L writing and composed characters (several parts are combined into one character), currently supported languages are: Hindui, Thai, Hebrew and Arabic -- I cannot use any of those languages, thus I cannot judge the quality of this support (separately can be activated support for Asian languages -- I assume for CJK). > > I suggest to download the suite, read the Help and go through the Preferences -- perhaps you will also need to enable something on the level of Mac OS X: suite is reading some values from the system settings. > > HTH > > Kind regards, > > -- > Igor > ----- > Igor Kramberger, raziskovalec-urednik > > Koro'ska cesta 63, SI-2000 Maribor > pri Tom'si'c, Ulica Toma Brejca 11 a, SI-1241 Kamnik > > Slovenija, Evropa And on Feb 16, 2011, at 2:42 AM, Knut S. Vikør wrote: > Just downloaded to check language capabilities. First glance, it looks exactly like OpenOffice, even down to inheriting the settings from my OO.org. Arabic seems to work in the same way, that is that it handles AAT (Apple) fonts fine, but not OpenType. Like OpenOffice it displays OT fonts disjointed (unlike NeoOffice, which replaces them with Geeza). Like OO, this OpenType issue causes problem e.g. in the database layout modules, which defaults to a haphazard font on your system, which may be an OpenType font that does not display properly. Footnotes OK. > > I haven't checked further, but so far seems to duplicate the language performance of OpenOffice. > > Knut