[Solved] Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
[Solved] Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
I'm reproducing a block quote of several verses of Hebrew scripture, and Hebrew is written right to left, so the block quote is going to be right-justified. However, I need the verse number in Arabic numerals at the beginning of each verse, so the first line of each verse will start with a double-digit verse number followed by a space followed by the Hebrew text, and the rest of the verse will line up indented with the Hebrew text of the first line. Something like this:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So how would I set up a right-justified hanging indent to accommodate the numerals and spaces? Thank you.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So how would I set up a right-justified hanging indent to accommodate the numerals and spaces? Thank you.
Last edited by Hagar Delest on Wed May 24, 2023 9:30 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Right-Justified Hanging Indent?
I tried on LibreOffice and it works the same way whatever the text direction. Make sure you set the text direction Right to Left in the paragraph properties with a right alignment (better to do that from the paragraph style).
Have not tried to add a non-manual numbering (i.e. with a list style).
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Have not tried to add a non-manual numbering (i.e. with a list style).
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Re: Right-Justified Hanging Indent?
Thanks for helping out with this. In my paragraph properties, I'm able to select right hand justification for the text, but I couldn't find anything relating to "text direction."
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Re: Right-Justified Hanging Indent?
- Select all relevant paragraphs
- In Format β Styles and Formatting β Paragraph Styles (top left icon) double click Text Body
- Right-click Text Body β Modify
β Alignment β Properties β Text direction β Right-to-left β OK - In Format β Styles and Formatting β List Styles (fifth icon) double click Numbering 1
- Right-click Numbering 1 β Modify
β Position β Followed by β Tab stop β At β 1 β Alignment β Right β Aligned at β 0 β Indent at β 1
β Options β After β βΉnothingβΊ β OK
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Re: Right-Justified Hanging Indent?
When I get to "alignment," I have the option of having the text right-justified, but nothing comes up about "text direction."
I'm attaching a screen shot of the online PDF I was copying from, showing the verse numbers hanging out to the right of the text. Also attached is the file I got when I pasted, showing the verse numbers following the verses instead of preceding them.
I'm attaching a screen shot of the online PDF I was copying from, showing the verse numbers hanging out to the right of the text. Also attached is the file I got when I pasted, showing the verse numbers following the verses instead of preceding them.
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
Don't you have that dialog?
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
"Don't you have that dialog?" Nope. The "properties" business doesn't come up at all.
The file you worked with allowed me to work with each verse one at a time and get them into block form with the verse number hanging out to the right. There are three more verses from a different book of the Bible that I'm working with as well that have the verse number behind the first line of the verse (to the left) instead of in front of the first line of the verse (to the right). I'd be most grateful if you could do to these three verses what you did to the others. File attached and thanks again.
The file you worked with allowed me to work with each verse one at a time and get them into block form with the verse number hanging out to the right. There are three more verses from a different book of the Bible that I'm working with as well that have the verse number behind the first line of the verse (to the left) instead of in front of the first line of the verse (to the right). I'd be most grateful if you could do to these three verses what you did to the others. File attached and thanks again.
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
I use LibreOffice, maybe the LTR/RTL setting is somewhere else in the paragraph properties in AOO.
See: [Solved] Writing right-to-left.
See: [Solved] Writing right-to-left.
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
In OpenOffice, the Help file says, for right-to-left text
Languages Using Complex Text Layout
Currently, OpenOffice supports Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, and Arabic as CTL languages.
If you select the text flow from right to left, embedded Western text still runs from left to right. The cursor responds to the arrow keys in that Right Arrow moves it "to the text end" and Left Arrow "to the text start".
You can change the text writing direction directly be pressing one of the following keys:
Ctrl+Shift+D or Ctrl+Right Shift Key - switch to right-to-left text entry
Ctrl+Shift+A or Ctrl+Left Shift Key - switch to left-to-right text entry
The modifier-only key combinations only work when CTL support is enabled.
In multicolumn pages, sections or frames that are formatted with text flow from right to left, the first column is the right column and the last column is the left column.
In OpenOffice Writer text formatted in Thai language has the following features:
In paragraphs with justified alignment, the characters are stretched to flush the lines at the margins. In other languages the spaces between words are stretched.
Use the Delete key to delete a whole composite character. Use the Backspace key to delete the last part of the previous composite character.
Use the Right or Left Arrow key to jump to the next or previous whole composite character. To position the cursor into a composite character, use Alt+Arrow key.
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
I just noticed that when I tried to copy and paste the file that I organized so that all the verse numbers were hanging out to the right, it reverted back to its original form. I was testing the cut and paste for ease of working with the text in a paper I'm putting together. I guess I can just copy and paste the file to where I want it in the paper and then manipulate it as required in situ.
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
Thanks, I'll look that over.Hagar Delest wrote: βWed May 03, 2023 10:19 am I use LibreOffice, maybe the LTR/RTL setting is somewhere else in the paragraph properties in AOO.
See: [Solved] Writing right-to-left.
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
Thanks, I'll check it out.RoryOF wrote: βWed May 03, 2023 10:23 am In OpenOffice, the Help file says, for right-to-left textLanguages Using Complex Text Layout
Currently, OpenOffice supports Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, and Arabic as CTL languages.
If you select the text flow from right to left, embedded Western text still runs from left to right. The cursor responds to the arrow keys in that Right Arrow moves it "to the text end" and Left Arrow "to the text start".
You can change the text writing direction directly be pressing one of the following keys:
Ctrl+Shift+D or Ctrl+Right Shift Key - switch to right-to-left text entry
Ctrl+Shift+A or Ctrl+Left Shift Key - switch to left-to-right text entry
The modifier-only key combinations only work when CTL support is enabled.
In multicolumn pages, sections or frames that are formatted with text flow from right to left, the first column is the right column and the last column is the left column.
In OpenOffice Writer text formatted in Thai language has the following features:
In paragraphs with justified alignment, the characters are stretched to flush the lines at the margins. In other languages the spaces between words are stretched.
Use the Delete key to delete a whole composite character. Use the Backspace key to delete the last part of the previous composite character.
Use the Right or Left Arrow key to jump to the next or previous whole composite character. To position the cursor into a composite character, use Alt+Arrow key.
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
Another way to do this might be to use a table of two columns, putting the text in one and the numbering in another, each row holding only one verse of text; one can set the table borders to be invisible when printed; onscreen they may show up as a faint guide line.
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
Don't know if this helps - but if you use a text frame then you can set the text direction of the frame contents to Right-to-left (horizontal) - then the paragraph numbering will appear on the right hand side.
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Re: Right-justified hanging indent for Hebrew
To see the Text Direction control, you must enable the following OpenOffice option. Options are set with OpenOffice β Preferences on a Mac, Tools β Options on other platforms.
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