greek/hebrew

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Regarding your specific question - at the top of the window,
next to the paragraph alignment cons, there is a direction
icon.

I gave ti a try but all it did on my Mac is switch the alignment to
right (no right to left writing).


Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Ask Ori and Eyal Redler, who wrote the application. Off-hand, though, I
believe they wrote their own workaround for right-to-left text, since the
main point was to have an application that could properly do Hebrew and
Arabic. The Redlers are Israeli and wanted something that would do their
language in OSX. They had it working in Jaguar, which didn't have its own
right-to-left capability.

Thanks for the clarification Gene. That explains a lot.


Corentin

 

[Sam Elowitch]

Shalom!

Yes, I agree that Mellel is excellent and surpasses Nisus on many fronts,
particularly under OS X.

While no program that I've encountered (besides perhaps Ready Set Go) ever
really does Hebrew typography extremely well, Mellel is about is close as it
comes for a "word processing" application, as distinguished from a "page
layout" application.

Can Mellel handle Aravit (Arabic)?

-Sam

 

[Shaul]

Yes, it can handle Arabic and many other languages.
See http://www.redlers.com/generalcomparison.html
for a table (made by Redlex) comparing features
of Mellel to MS Word, Nisus, and Mariner

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Nice lot of information in that comparison table, thanks for posting the
link.

Dayo