Multiple Languages and Non-Latin Characters for Personal Books
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Is there any way to make sure that Hebrew, Greek, and any other non-Latin script appears in the correct order? This is important to me.
Generally if it appears correctly in the .docx file, it should appear correctly in a personal book. Occasionally, when the Word document has been edited multiple times you can get into language tag problems. Have you been having problems?
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Is there any way to make sure that Hebrew, Greek, and any other non-Latin script appears in the correct order?
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What language is specified in docx ?
Seem to remember English language for Hebrew words has opportunity for Hebrew letters to flip direction during Personal Book compilation.
Faithlife uses Unicode characters for Hebrew, Greek, ... SBL Bib Lit font includes English, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek unicode characters.
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You just restated the warning. Obviously it's going to be English as books are written in English.
That's wrong. Usually MS Word detects the languages Greek and Hebrew for words in such script, but you can make sure manually by setting the language of individual words. Word (at least on Windows) is smart enough to support non-Latin characters and Right-To-Left languages such as Hebrew. When marked in this way, the PB compiler will pick up on the language and will display correctly in Logos.
You will need to make sure, though, that you use Unicode fonts in your Word document, not some old-fashioned solution that just show something looking like a non-Latin character (such as displaying an alpha when technically there is an a). English text in PBs should be Times New Roman, as this is interpreted as "Standard" and Logos will use the font you configured in the application settings to display it. For Greek and Hebrew you may want to use any of the Unicode fonts offered for those languages, where SBL BibLit is a font that supports both languages.
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It would be best for this to be in the appropriate forum. Are you using L7 or L8? A forum moderator can move the thread for you.
I do not work much in original languages, but I would assume that Greek would not be a problem, but that Hebrew would (since it reads right to left). Have you had problems with both?
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L8. Thanks for the help my friend.
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