First, some languages (such as Arabic) require ligatures that won’t kick in using this method.
More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.īut there are (at least) two problems with this workflow. To make this work for Hebrew, you can either type the text backward into InDesign (which isn’t fun) or type it normally into any program that supports right-to-left typing (such as MS Word or TextEdit) then copy that text and paste it into an InDesign text frame. Once you have the script installed, you can run it by double-clicking on it in the Scripts palette, or by assigning a keyboard shortcut to it in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts (product area: Scripts).
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If you need to know how to install scripts, click here.
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To download the script, right-click on this link and choose Save As (or Save Target As or whatever your browser calls it). That is, if you select “abcde” and run the script, you get “edcba”. Peter Kahrel was kind enough to write a little script that reverses the order of any selected text.
The ME version is great if you have a lot of Hebrew or Arabic text, but what if you only need to set a word or a phrase? Rachel’s email prompted me to take action: Get a script! But this doesn’t work in InDesign for some reason. I remember working on the book and discovering that I could copy Hebrew out of MS Word and paste it into PageMaker, and it would retain it’s right-to-left appearance. (Diane Burns wrote a great article about this in Issue 13 of InDesign Magazine.) But with InDesign, you have long needed to use the ME (middle-eastern) version of the program, developed and published by Winsoft, and available in the United States by FontWorld. Many text editors and word processors, such as Microsoft Word, can handle right-to-left text just fine. Back then I tried for days to figure out how to get the bits of Hebrew we needed into InDesign. I can totally understand this frustration! Some of you may know that back in 2001 I co-authored a book called Judaism For Dummies.
I work enough with the issue to make Hebrew backward-typing annoying yet not enough to warrant InDesign ME. In InDesign I sometimes have to work with small bits of Hebrew text.
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