Does anyone out there have the latest version of Davka (6) and have you tried pasting text into other software? The list of upgrades seems to indicate that a 'copy for Unicode' option is available, which may solve this problem. That brings me to the second drawback: someone without Hebrew fonts sees gibberish, even when I use that two-step process which looks fine on my computer. Also sells a Hebrew word processor for the Mac called Mellel II, which runs on Mac. The best Hebrew word processor for Windows, however, is now DavkaWriter 7 (from Davka Corp.). My text is in Davka Writer 5 (but I can copy it to Word XP), but my grapic designer does not manage to work with it prperly with InDesigen. Word seems to be able to convert the text into a font that Notebook recognizes.įreeman, I will be very grateful if you could explain how to work with trop (taamei haMikra) on Hebrew text with InDesign for Mac. If I skip the Word step then it comes out like gibberish in Notebook.

The drawback is that I need to go through two steps to get the Hebrew into Notebook: copy from Davka, paste into Microsoft Word, then copy from Word and paste into Notebook. In fact, I find if I have Hebrew turned on when I use Davka (I have version 4), it seems to mess it up, so I've been primarily working with Hebrew support turned off. Turning Hebrew support on or off does not seem to affect this. In that case I'll be cutting and pasting from another source. Most often, I'm copying in sections of pesukim, midrashim, gemara, etc.

There are a number of different scenarios where a user would put Hebrew in Notebook.

So this past week I finally got around to exploring different ways to get Hebrew into Notebook to see if I can come up with a universal method that works on everyone's computer. The system I developed works for me, though it is somewhat cumbersome, but a number of people who downloaded my files have told me that they can't read the Hebrew-it's coming out as gibberish. One of the challenges I've been facing while using the Smartboard this year is finding an effective way to get Hebrew into Notebook.

Overriding text in davka software