Mac and Hebrew. tips and failures.
It is amazing to me that in 2011 it is still painful to correctly use your mac with hebrew for text editing. As a non israeli native i find it so complex to use in a same doc hebrew and english. I mean that is not a piece of genius to get this done. right?
Most amazingly i asked the question to my social network and you know what? every one is stuck with the same damn problem.
want to have a double check? take any piece of hebrew, copy paste it in word and pages, then try to edit it...
There are a few tips you need to know to make sure this is going to be as painless as possible
Let's start with this. Microsoft word for Mac and Apple's pages are not fully compatible with hebrew. They don't fully support right to left and tweaky editing like bullet list on the right or multi columns
Here is what works decently that i tried
- Google docs, when set correctly is really the best option. BUT you need to be online to use it.
- Mellel is a [ugly but efficient] paid text editor that will treat well hebrew input
- The native Apple's text edit will do to but has very limited editing capabilities.
- I heard Neoffice is hebrew friendly but i have not tried it [available on donation only...]
Apple, Microsoft if you read this: Make Word and Pages fully hebrew compatible. like now...
What are your tips/best practice/top soft to use hebrew on mac?
