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toni23353534zqer
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December 4, 2023
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hebrew forced line break

  • December 4, 2023
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When typing a paragraph in Hebrew there is a problem when doing Forced line break. The character direction become Left-to-right direction, ...

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Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 4, 2023
  • Is your paragraph style defined RTL?
  • Or did you apply a character style with RTL? If the whole paragraph style is RTL, apply such a paragraph style.
  • Is it a mixed RTL/LTR paragraph, make forced returns only in the main direction, as mixed returns in the same paragraph cause always problems.

I do a lot of typesetting with biblical commentaries and sometimes I have to contact the author to separate longer texts into 2 paragraphs to avoid these problems.

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toni23353534zqerAuthor
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December 4, 2023

It was never a problem till the 2024 update... when a sentance is doing a forced line break the punctuation jumps to the wrongs side of the text! Very difficult to work like this - having to manually change the RTL or vice versa

Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 4, 2023

Thank you for your quick reply - this may be so but not only I have been struggling - i have been reading online that this is problem is common fot many users...

 


You cannot claim that the behaviour has changed if you have not a consistent workflow. “Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t”. Use styles and only with styles you can avoid problems. There is no reason to avoid styles. Without styles the outcome is randomly and it makes a difference where the curser is.

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