Shibboleth and Pasting Into Word

Y'all:

When I use Shibboleth to past SBL Hebrew into Word, the default font size is 10pt --is there any way to make it so the default is something different? I really want it to paste in 14pt, instead 10pt, or something else. The paste font size is regulated by the rtf text Shibboleth is putting on the clipboard --there's nothing I can do from the Word end to fix this.

Thoughts?

Russ

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Rosie Perera

I don't have Shibboleth installed so I can't try this out myself, but if the font size is regulated by the RTF that Shibboleth puts on the clipboard, then you probably have no other recource but this:

Paste, select the pasted text, then press Shift+Ctrl+> twice and that will increase the font size to 14. You could record a macro in Word to do this and assign it to a single keystroke so that you don't have to do these multiple steps each time you want to paste in from Shibboleth.

Russ White

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/246659#Comment_246659

Thanks --it's the selecting part I'm trying to avoid. I'm trying to help a friend with a thesis he wrote many years ago in Wordperfect using three or four different Hebrew typefaces --I'm trying to get them all replaced with SBL Hebrew. You can't do a simple find and replace, you have to actually retype the Hebrew in each case. The problem is there are 320 pages here, with a total of something like 3000 Hebrew words or quotes of varying sizes. Not having to select and set the font size (even if with a shortcut key) 3000 times would be greatly helpful.

Russ

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/246666#Comment_246666

You can't do a simple find and replace, you have to actually retype the Hebrew in each case.

Uggh. With a project that complex, I'd definitely be looking for a way to automate it. It would be worth taking the time to figure out the mapping of each character in each of the fonts he used in his original document to a character in SBL Hebrew. You'd have to do quite a number of global search and replaces (one for Aleph in Font 1 to Alpeh in SBL Hebrew, and so on, including all the vowels). It might not work though, since some fonts might handle things like dagesh differently -- some might do it as a separate letter which overlays the adjacent latter (the way vowels are usually done), others might have two different glyphs for the dagesh and non-dagesh version of a letter. In any event, I do not envy you!

However, at least to make the pasting easier so you don't have to manually select each piece of text afterward to fix the font size, you can set the default paste format for Word when pasting from other programs to "Keep Text Only" or "Match Destination Formatting":

Then each time you are about to paste some Hebrew text into Word, set the font and point size you want at the insertion point first.