Re: [OOo-Hebrew] Hebrew Index

Hi Nadav,

On 10/24/06 22:31, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: [OOo-Hebrew] Hebrew Index":
>> ..
>>> Does anyone know how do I tell OpenOffice to have the index's columns appear
>>> from right to left?
>> Nobody answered my question, and I've given up on finding an answer myself:
>> it looks like there's simply no way to do this in the current OpenOffice,
>> ..
>>
>> So I've opened a bug on the OpenOffice bug tracker:
>>
>> 	http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69720
> 
> I guess one should never give up on one's-self :-)
> 
> By sheer luck, I found a solution to the problem of right-to-left index
> columns. It happens that in Format->Page there's a setting of Text Direction
> Right to Left. This setting first appears to do nothing (e.g., it doesn't
> choose your default paragraph direction), but it does miraculously make
> your index columns go from right to left! (you'll have to update the index
> before it actually looks right).

This setting sets the default paragraph direction (if there has not been 
a hard direction attribute assigned to the paragraphs). It also sets the 
column order of sections, tables, page columns. So setting the page 
direction to RTL is generally a good idea if you intend to write 
documents which main contents consists of RTL text. If your system 
locale is set to a RTL locale, the default page direction should already 
be set to RTL.

Regards,

Frank

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