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May 19, 2024
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How to fix punctuation reversed in Hebrew text?

  • May 19, 2024
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Hello,

Hoping someone might be able to help me out with this. I'm working on a ketubah for a friend's wedding, and I cant get the punctuation in the right spot for the Hebrew portion. The document is in both Hebrew and English, so I need the language profiles for both languages. 

 

I read a past post from 2020 about the same issue, with the answer being to uninstall the en_us, set creative cloud to the needed language and reinstall, which worked for the person in the past post. However,  I need both languages for the doument and I can only read english. Is there any other solution to get the puctuation in the right place? 

I went over this with a friend who said the period at the end of the first paragaph in the picture below should be on the other end of the line.. so im using that as my indicator for whether or not anything ive tried as worked. 

 

I have it set to adobe world ready paragraph composer. Hoping there is a way to fix this!

 

TIA 

 

 

 

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Correct answer Barb Binder

Those instructions are still correct.

 

You can install the ME versions with full right-to-left language support, Arabic/Hebrew features, and an English interface. Then you can set the text direction to right-to-left and left-to-right (you need both) at the paragraph level as well as at the character level.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/arabic-hebrew.html

 

~Barb

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Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 19, 2024

Those instructions are still correct.

 

You can install the ME versions with full right-to-left language support, Arabic/Hebrew features, and an English interface. Then you can set the text direction to right-to-left and left-to-right (you need both) at the paragraph level as well as at the character level.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/arabic-hebrew.html

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training