Hebrew

Support for Hebrew is available in all parts of the Nota Bene Workstation. You can write a whole document in Hebrew, use Ibidem to generate citations and bibliographies in Hebrew, and use Orbis to search through multiple documents for a Hebrew word or words. You can also mix Hebrew and English (or other languages) in the same document, and even on the same line.

•	Click Tools, Lingua, Language Selection or press Ctrl+Shift+H to open a Language Bar on the left side of your screen. The Language Bar can be used to move from one alphabet to another. See Language Bar.

The Hebrew keyboard is mnemonic, with letters placed where those accustomed the English keyboard might expect them. However, if you prefer to use the Israeli National keyboard, the Yiddish keyboard or the NB DOS Hebrew keyboard, they are available as optional keyboards. For more information on changing alphabets and on installing optional keyboards, see Alphabets, Languages and Keyboards.

Whenever the Hebrew keyboard is active, letters will automatically be entered from right to left. However, the orientation does not change automatically. It is important to understand that the orientation is not the same as letters being added from right to left. When writing in Hebrew, the orientation can be either left-to-right or right-to-left, but letters will always be added from right to left and words will always wrap properly from line to line.

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Left-to-right orientation is the default orientation. If you are adding a few Hebrew words to a block of text that is written in English (or in any other left-to-right language), you should not change the orientation. In this case, the paragraphs and lines will still begin at the left margin, but when you type in Hebrew, the letters will be added from right to left. You will see that Hebrew letters that you have typed will be pushed off to the right to make room for the next letter that you type.

•	Right-to-left orientation should be used if you are writing a document in Hebrew, or even if you are writing a block of Hebrew text. New paragraphs and new lines will start at the right margin as you would expect in a Hebrew document.

If the Hebrew keyboard is active, numbers as well as letters will be entered right to left. This may mean that you need to enter the numbers in reverse. For example, to enter the year 1956 while the Hebrew keyboard is active, you would type 6591.

To change the orientation, press Ctrl+Shift+< for right-to-left orientation or Ctrl+Shift+> for left-to-right orientation. You can also change the orientation by clicking Tools, Lingua, and then selecting the orientation. If you prefer to use the action line, see Orientation: LR command for instructions.

If you are adding a Hebrew word or phrase to a block of English text, it is important to enter spaces before and after the Hebrew in English. If the spaces that separate English from Hebrew are inserted in Hebrew rather than in English, then the management of spaces at the end of a line may not be correct. When entering Hebrew text in midst of English text that has already been typed, you should enter two spaces and then position the cursor so that one space is before the cursor and one is after the cursor. The same principal applies to adding text in any right-to-left language to a block of text written in any left-to-right language. Similarly, if you are entering English text (or text in any left-to-right language) to a Hebrew document with a right-to-left orientation, then the spaces between the Hebrew and the English text must be entered in Hebrew.

On most systems, Hebrew characters will display properly. If you encounter any problems with this, see Hebrew Setup.

At your option, the cursor can be configured as a flag pointing in the direction of the currently active orientation (left-to-right or right-to-left). See Cursor Settings.

•	The left and right arrows are designed to move to the left or to right regardless of the language. See cursor movement.

•	The delete key will always delete the next character. In Hebrew, the "next" character will be the character to the left of the cursor.

•	The backspace key will always delete the previous character. In Hebrew, the "previous" character will be the character to the right of the cursor.

•	The paragraph indentation settings and tabs (IP and TS commands) work from right to left when you select right-to-left orientation.

•	There is no change to the way you set margins when you select right-to-left orientation. If you use the action line, the value for the left margin (or the inside margin) should still be entered before the value of the right margin (or outside margin).

•	If you want your footnotes to have a right-to-left orientation, click Format, Notes, Series I and then click the Right-to-Left radio button on the Note Format dialog.

For an example of how Nota Bene can be used to analyze the structure of a Hebrew sentence, click Help, Sample Instructional Files and open the languages file.