![]() I solved that with Ukelele - I imported the Hebrew QWERTY kbd and modified it to the SIL one. Now it works perfectly, and even acts like Mellel Hebrew with rt justification - the cursor goes rtl in Word in Hebrew keyboards, wraps correctly, and the Mac keyboard shortcut to return to the previous keyboard works in Word. You can also easily switch fonts with one click macros in Word. Cut and paste of Unicode or any font works perfectly. And the huge files, if you convert or save them as. docx, load quickly and edit like small files do. I have to say I experienced typing lag in version 15.29, so I loaded 15.31 today via the Insider Program, and that is fixed. Holmstedt said he preferred Libre Office, but I've experienced a few glitches with it, including toolbar items disappearing after switching between Hebrew and English fonts, and alignment issues - having to pick the opposite to get what you want, picking left for right alignment and vice versa. This is ok if you stay in LO, but not ok if you convert to a Word or rtf document. I also know others prefer Mellel or Nissus. I have Mellel, but I find it more cumbersome to use than Word, because Word is already familiar to me.Įverything cuts and pastes into Word perfectly, with the exception of Acc, but there are two workarounds - Paste Special. And, I'm sure these workarounds won't be needed for long.Īs RTF, or copying and pasting from Acc Notes. When it comes to citations, I've always done what Dr. Holmstedt switched to, I just copy and paste from a long running file - I just write these once and cut and paste. To me it's just as fast as learning another program. Besides, I find Scrivener just as useful for filing pdfs and citations, and I am moving towards Scrivener for future citation needs.Īnyways, its fwiw, but I'm surprised at how well Word works. So Word might be worth another look now that Hebrew works well in it. I've used every version of Word on the Mac since Word 6, which was released in 1994 (and every version of Word for Windows since v. Word has not always been my primary word processor on either platform but I've always had a current copy. On the Mac, I used Mellel for a while because of the Hebrew issue. I also used Pages for a while as my primary, too, thinking that since it was from Apple, it would work best on their OS. Not so much, they tend to neglect apps for a very long time until they finally update them or abandon them. The greatest consideration for me in a word processor is the necessity to open my files years from now. Very capable and an enormous application (considering its young age) excellent value for money still lightyears from Word 2004 or FrameMaker in most disciplines, but only costs 5-10% of these.I have documents from the late '80s that I still need to open now and then (I've converted all of them at this point). but can be "overcome" manually with variables to some degree), no mail-merge of any kind, autonumbering cannot be done in-place by applying a paragraph format No cross-references, no automated index generation, weak table of contents implementation, no custom lists (list of tables, list of figures), setup too complex for one-time documents, lousy Word Import/Export (basically unusable), clumsy table formatting, no versioning functionality (neither "track changes" nor change bars), no commenting or highlighting functions, very basic find/replace, very basic set of auto-text fields (no filename, print date etc. It is rock solid, never had any crashes or data loss performance is excellent - even on a G4 Powerbook autonumbering is the second-best I've seen (with FrameMaker being number one) foreign language support is the best I've seen, RTF export is ok, good integration of bibliography tools, nice implementation of columns and section breaks I use it regularly since about 18 months, and these are my findings: Have you had any problems, crashes, etc? Is there anything you
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