Hebrew Text Within English Article

[jcolivieri]

I have a magazine article that included both English and Hebrew text. A copy and paste of the text creates square blocks where the Hebrew verbiage is. How do I go about correcting this? Thank you in advance!

[James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted solution]

You probably know this or most of it if you've been working wtih alternate-glyph and RTL languages, but...

1. For running inclusion of Hebrew, you need a font that supports Hebrew characters. I think most of the Adobe Pro fonts do (as well as other common alphabets).
2. For separate paragraphs, use Paragraph style that uses a Hebrew font.
3. For inserted text in a style using a font without Hebrew characters, use a Character style that applies a compatible font.
4. You will need to manually type Hebrew in reverse, of course, and possiby reverse cut/pastes.

Right offhand, I'd say cutting/pasting did not convey the right font, the right glyph assignments or might have been confused by RTL/LTR changes. You may have to fix all cut/pastes unless you can identify the cause and create an optimal conversion style.

[ROBERT29009993sszx]

Typing Hebrew in reverse is not really a solution for large works.  This is Adam אדם  when typed properly even works here in a web interface.    When typed in InDesign it scrambles the sentence.  There must be a way to make it work properly.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

I don't know of many tools that combine language management very well, even in simple cases like English/Russian.  You have to select a primary language set, and anything in a different alphabet, or reversed direction, or needing complex diacritics is going to have to be handled a bit clumsily.

What about typing (or just displaying) in a Hebrew/RTL editor, and cutting/pasting what's needed?

[ROBERT29009993sszx]

I have a solution.

Select World Ready...

Then use a compatible font.

TimeNewRoman works well in most apps, but not InDesign.

I am using LevenimMT

I will be trying other fonts.