Dear Kino,

Thanks for your reply.
I may not have made it clear enough what my problem is.
I'm talking about Hebrew phrases and sentences inserted into footnotes which
are basically written in English. Those Heb. Phrases and sentences were
written in the reverse mode under NW 6 with Euroscript on.

When I mail from my Mac OS 9 such a file to my Mac OS 10, the Hebrew phrases
and sentences in the main body of the document appear alright, but all
Hebrew phrases and sentences in footnotes appear in the reverse order. What
I entered as <GFED CBA> appears as <ABC DEFG>. I am asking if there is a
simple way of reversing ALL these sequences with a single operation, instead
of selecting them one by one and then applying the macro function <Reverse
Text>. I suppose there must be a possibility to find ALL such sequences at
one go and highlight them on the screen.

Takamitsu



> From: Kino <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:04:03 +0900
> To: Nisus <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Reverese mode in footnotes
> 
> On 2011-04-10 [+0900 JST], at 9:59 PM, takamitsu muraoka wrote:
> 
>> Some time ago Kino helped me on how to deal with R-L texts keyed-in under
>> the NW Classic in the reverse mode, and referred me to a useful macro under
>> NW Pro: Macro > Changing Text > Reverse Text.
>> By applying this macro I can reverse any Hebrew phrase or sentence back to
>> the right sequence. But is there any way of doing this globally instead of
>> searching every single sequence in footnotes and applying this macro
>> manually? When there are hundreds of such cases in a single document full of
>> footnotes, this becomes a really bloody nuisance.
> 
> I think you want to run the macro on text portions originally having "Reverse"
> style. Right? If so and IIRC, NWP adds "Reverse" character style on them when
> importing a NW Classic document. You can select them all by [1] putting the
> insertion point somewhere in a text portion having that character style and
> [2] choosing Select All from the Character Style menu in the status bar the
> bottom of the document window.
> 
> Alternatively and assuming those text portions to be in the same font, you can
> select them by an Attribute Sensitive Find All:
> 
> 1. Make active the Find panel;
> 2. Switch to PowerFind Pro mode;
> 3. Type "\p{Any}+" (without quotes) in the Find field;
> 4. Apply Format:Any Attributes on "\p{Any}+" (Attribute Sensitive is checked
> automatically);
> 5. Apply the font on "\p{Any}+".
> 
> 
> Kino