Possible Hebrew Text Formatting Solution

A short tutorial offering a possible formatting solution to printing Hebrew text from Bible Works 8.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• BibleWorks
• Hebrew
• Text
• Windows
• Formatting

[hkay2008]

Long time no see....glad you're back

[Qereach]

@hkay2008 Thank you. I'm working through some major, major changes in what I want to accomplish in my videos and website; so it still might be awhile. I'm teaching my daughters in a totally different format now and therefore no longer using PowerPoint.  They are older and so we are reading together. We are discussing.

I posted this video based on a thread over in the BibleWorks forum.

Once again, thanks for the kind words.

[brainouty]

@Qereach Yeah, as BibleWorks counsels on its own website, technology today doesn't mean readable tomorrow. Frankly, it's faster to flip pages than windows. Word's Two-Page Preview is next best.

Seems like computer is best for processing wide swaths of text (i.e., Word searches). But for comprehension, unless on a cramped plane, give me a book to markup, any day.

Plastic hair-roller 'clippies' don't hold hair, but make great bookmarkers.I use them for my law books, all the time. :)

[Qereach]

@brainouty You are definitely using technology the way it is suppose to be used. Your travel & class experiences alone make an impregnable argument. I should be doing what you are doing; but, I'm a bit of an old dog dinosaur. Got my wife a KOBO eReader recently. Same kind of thing. Amazing little & light weight electronic thingamabob. However, I can't (as yet) make the switch to digital: I love my analog paper cuts way too much.

[brainouty]

@Qereach Understood! I put BW8 on my Acer Aspire One along with Big Kittle from Logos. Worked real well on the plane and while waiting, hardly noticed the time spent. But here at home, yeah, the books are still useful, you can arrange them all open at different places on the floor. Real helpful during class, to have both as need be.

[Qereach]

@brainouty Took me a while to get use to the interface too; but I'm there now. It puts the quick back in glance.

To be honest, I still like books better. I use BW8 when I feel the need to get notes-heavy; otherwise, I much more prefer "Reader's Versions" for the lion's share of the way I study. I don't even mind opening up hard bound lexicons and such. Mark 'em up all to "h" "e" "double hockey sticks." But I digress.......

Sounds to me like I haven't tried the rtf method w. Word 2007.

[brainouty]

@Qereach Well, I like the added features, esp. all the pay-for modules they offer except the Dead Sea Scrolls (which I already have on hardback), and two others which didn't interest me. Not too keen on how they changed the interface, and the in-Bible copy/paste function now is a hassle, compared to BW5. But I just use BW5 when I copy and paste. Even so, it's worlds better than the other software I could find, for sheer textual analysis.

Did you have time to try the rtf method w/Word2007?

[Qereach]

@brainouty Hey brainouty, you are correct - this is Word 2007. Based on what I had been reading in the BW forum, I thought the problem might be these formatting space-circles that I've seen from time to time. When I copy and paste them, I've had to remove them. Apparently, those little nuisances were not it.

Glad you got BW8! I have no doubt that you are getting much from it.

[brainouty]

@brainouty With Word 2002, to make it properly format I have to export the text within BW's own editor, save it as an rtf file, and then in rtf it will correctly re-align. I just learned that trick a few months ago. But with the older Win97, there is an add-in BW5 offered to make the text align within Word. It kept on working until the updates were applied to Win2000. So I went back to the older Word. So those are the two added solutions I learned.

[brainouty]

That's using Word 2007? I just got BW8 also, in addition to my old version 5, but in the older Word97-2000 I don't have formatting problems. The problems begin with Word 2002.