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MS Office Forum / Word / General MS Word Questions / March 2005Visibility of Left to Right Changes
I have begun to work with Hebrew words interspersed amongst English text in Word 2002 Documents. It is not always clear where text changes from Left-to-Right (English) to Right-to-Left (Hebrew) direction, and vice-versa. I really need to see where the text direction changes are. In other words, I want to be able to see a special character where the direction change occurs. Although Word 2002 has a complex-script option available in Tools/Options marked 'Control Characters' which I have ticked, no control characters become visible. Can you help ? Many Thanks Andrew There are not always control characters; in fact, usually there would not be. What you are looking for is the Unicode Bidi algorithm: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ It describes the behavior here.  SignatureMichKa [Microsoft] NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Technical Lead Globalization Infrastructure, Fonts, and Tools Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > I have begun to work with Hebrew words interspersed amongst English text in > Word 2002 Documents. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Andrew Many thanks Michael. It would take me about a working day to fully understand that algorithm, time I don't have (and as I am a fellow Access programmer like you, I guess I can learn relatively quickly). It is a shame that Microsoft didn't see fit to offer the option to notate their documents somehow so that the user can see when language direction changes, as this is quite a complex area and causes problems when copying and pasting. Oh well. Best Regards Andrew I honestly don't see how they *could* do such a thing. If there were a way to make Bidi easier (and I am not sure there is), I also do not think most people would consider this to be the way. As long as the places you copy and paste into both support Uniscribe, things should work okay here for users, though. SignatureMichKa [Microsoft] NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Technical Lead Globalization Infrastructure, Fonts, and Tools Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > Many thanks Michael. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Best Regards > Andrew |
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