Also, to insert dates or numbers, specify the direction of text at the character level. From the Character panel menu, choose Character Direction and then select a direction. When you're working with Arabic and Hebrew languages, the story generally flows from the right to the left. The first column must be on right side of the frame, and subsequent columns are added to the left.
If your layout contains mixed content, then different stories need a different direction. In Arabic, text is justified by adding Kashidas. Kashidas are added to arabic characters to lengthen them.
Whitespace is not modified. Use automatic Kashida insertion to justify paragraphs of arabic text. Kashidas are only inserted if the paragraph is justified. This setting is not applicable for paragraphs that have alignment settings. To apply Kashidas to a group of characters, select the characters and choose Kashidas from the Character panel menu.
You can automatically apply ligatures to character pairs in Arabic and Hebrew. Ligatures are typographic replacement characters for certain letter pairs if they are available in a given Open Type font. When you choose Ligatures from the Character panel menu or Control panel menu, a standard ligature defined in the font is produced. However, some Open Type fonts include more ornate, optional ligatures, which can be produced when you choose Discretionary Ligatures.
In the Arabic script, a diacritic or a diacritical mark is a glyph used to indicate consonant length or short vowels.
A diacritical mark is placed above or below the script. For better styling of text, or improved readability of certain fonts, you can control the vertical or horizontal position of diacritical marks:.
You can copy text from Microsoft Word, and paste it directly into a document. The pasted text's alignment and direction is automatically set to that of the arabic or hebrew text. When you install a Middle Eastern or North African version, the default typing font is set to the installation-specific language, by default. Fonts that have been traditionally used for example, AXT fonts can continue to be used in this release of the software.
However, it is recommended that newer Open Type fonts be used for text-based elements. Text is handled automatically, where glyphs are not available in the font you are using. When you are working in Arabic or Hebrew, you can select the type of digits you want to use. You can choose between Arabic, Hindi, and Farsi. By default, in Arabic, the Hindi version is auto-selected, and in case of Hebrew, the Arabic type digits are selected.
However, you can switch to Arabic digits, if necessary:. Sentences that have more words that can fit into one line of text automatically wrap into the next line. The type of text justification when wrapping occurs sometimes causes unnecessary spaces to appear in the line that are not aesthetically pleasing or linguistically correct.
Hyphenation enables you to split the word at the end of a line, using a hyphen. This fragmentation causes the sentence to wrap into the next line in a better way. Mixed text: The Kashida insertion feature affects how hyphenation occurs in mixed text. When enabled, Kashidas are inserted where applicable, and non-Arabic text is not hyphenated.
When the Kashida feature is disabled, only non-Arabic text is considered for hyphenation. Hebrew text: Hyphenation is allowed. Arabic and Hebrew users can perform full text search and replace. In addition to searching and replacing simple text, you can also search and replace text with specific characteristics.
These characteristics can include diacritical marks, Kashidas, special characters for example, Alef , digits in different languages for example, digits in Hindi , and more. For example, you can find digits typed in Hindi and convert them to Arabic. Arabic and Hebrew users can apply glyphs from the default character set.
However, to browse, select, and apply a glyph from the default character set or a different language set, use the Glyphs panel:. A font can have alternative shapes of certain letters of the alphabet. These variations of the font face for some letters are generally available for stylistic or calligraphy purposes. In rare cases, justification alternates are used to justify and align paragraphs for specific needs. Justification alternates can be turned on at a paragraph level, where alternates are used wherever possible.
You can also turn on or off this feature at a character level. Justification alternates are available only in those fonts that have this feature integrated. Therefore, the option to turn them on or off is available only for supported fonts. Hebrew fonts that contain justification alternates: Adobe Hebrew and Myriad Hebrew.
Some characters in Arabic and Hebrew are difficult to insert in text. Also, Arabic and Hebrew keyboard layouts make it difficult to type or include these characters.
Arabic and Hebrew users can set the direction of a table inserted in a document. Accordingly the order of cells and columns, default language, and the alignment of text is set. For an Arabic user, the rightmost column is the first column, and any additional columns are added beyond the leftmost column of the table.
The Hebrew version is set to Hebrew language. The North African version defaults to French. My guess is that the ME version of InDesign handles the character substitution and accent placement better. Again, forgive me, but I have no idea what this says. I copied off a random Arabic web page. Dave Saunders also sent me a script to do this that works only in CS3. Or am I mistaken? Running this one line at a time definitely makes sense! The script works fine; alas it also reverses the vertical order of the lines.
For instance most Hebrew text today uses Arabic digits to represent numbers ie the same as English , and these read left to right within the Hebrew. So the English number range should appear as in Hebrew. I just found that out; an Arabic text created in MS Word Windows seems to I assume show up OK in TextEdit or Mellel, using Geeza Pro font, but when pasted into InDesign and reversed with the script mentioned above, consists of separate characters, some of which are different.
I have been experimenting with opening the Word file in Mellel, copying paragraphs into a new document, printing to PDF, and pasting into InDesign. Not very efficient. Yes, I alluded to this problem with Arabic in the post, but I was hoping that I was wrong. Oh well. It works great with single-letter Arabic words, though! Also, this script would be very useful for anyone who needs to set type in boustrephedon form. Except the wiki sample of boustrephedron shows the reversed lines also in mirror image, which is easy enough by reversing the whole text box.
I quite often end up supplying designers Arabic text as outlines within InDesign so they can tweak the layout but know the actual text is right… but obviously that defeats the point of the script of being self-sufficient.
All of these languages would have the problems described above unfortunately. MSWord in Hebrew and Arabic? I personally open an existing Hebrew font in a font editor, mirror every character in it. Then in InDesign I make a text frame and mirror the entire frame. Simple as that! The only downside is that you cannot combine Roman and Hebrew text in one frame.
Yes, we delete dozens of spam posts each week from the site to try to keep it clean. Use the glyphs panel to insert each Arabic character backwards in the word, choosing which position of the letter initial, medial, final, or isolated to put in.
Andrew emailed me with the tutorial URL. You can find it here. It is definitely a slow hack, but the idea of using the Alternate glyphs is a great one! There are a few good solutions out there for small amounts of Hebrew text but remember the caveats. If you have no nikud vowels , but quite a bit of text, then you can use DavkaWriter www.
BTW, somewhat off-topic, but you mentioned Judaism for Dummies. I read the 1st chapter and noticed a mistake. The book tells you how to pronounce Ashkenazi and Sefardi, however, it shows you how Americans incorrectly pronounce the word. Of course the stress should be on the last syllable, ie ashkenaZI and sefarDI. If only we could type in Davka or Mellel and then copy and paste into ID.
Using inline graphics for text like this works, but is a painful workaround and I avoid it whenever possible. One of the challenges we had was whether we include Hebrew or American emphasis. It did the trick for me. Weirdly, whilst I read and write Hebrew, my understanding of the language is severely limited. I have found that I type a document in Davka with nikkud then paste it into Word.
Save it and import and it works. If you have English then Hebrew on a line the line return messes it up, but it is fixable. I find it rather silly that there even needs to be a middle-eastern version of InDesign, or any other adobe program in the first place. It has all the features the English program has and additional tools for right-to-left typesetting. Why not incorporate those tools into all editions of InDesign to begin with? Thanks for the script.
I have another work-around:. Copy and Paste, run the script. Then place individual text boxes with each nikkud mark in the appropriate place.
But this script is great for the small stuff! My company also created a java script which allows the regular version of Indesign to set Arabic and Hebrew. In addition it uses the unicode tables to place the appropriate character depending on its placement within the sentence. I used it for a large book with multiple Arabic extracts. Hi Leslie — Arabic when I have to work with it is a big problem for me — is your script available? I am using Mac CS3. I paid a lot for CS3. I do not want to buy a completely separate version for Middle Eastern languages.
Setmose: I can appreciate the frustration. But this is not an Adobe ploy. As I noted earlier, that whole product is developed based on code licensed from Adobe, I assume by Winsoft.
I totally agree that it would be good for everyone if Adobe did make a single verison that could handle all these languages. I teach people how to read and understand Hebrew by way of Skype, my whiteboard software, and a webcam. Very cool. I am also very interested in the script; I just got an assignment to set a page report in Arabic!
Hi Leslie, I have to design a newspaper in Kurdish something like Arabic alphabet. Please tell me how can I get your script and test it in Kurdish? Thanks [email protected]. I have CS2 and am now facing the same situation. I need to work with Arabic layouts. What has been eluded to but never been quite clear, to me, is if I go with ME, can I do my layouts on it for my regular work here in the U.
Please note that there is more information about using Arabic and Hebrew in this post. In fact, InDesignSecrets. Can someone please help me. Please e-mail me if you know the answer!! Change the language to [No Language], or English or some other language which has regular digits…. From where i an change the language as you had instructed. Change the language to [No Language], or English or some other language which has regular digits?
Best Regards. Hello to everyone. The problem is, that when I place the file the words in hebrew appear broken, like the main characters are separated from their symbols. I tried to fix this in many ways inserting the copy as a txt. Nothing seems to work and I am currently in a very tough spot.
Can anyone help? Graph: Yeah, importing Word docs with right-to-left text is simply not supported in the English version of InDesign. The Arabic language is considered one of the most important languages and the most spread one in the world, thus the Arabic language belongs to the family of the Semitic languages which is branched from the Afro-Asian group of languages. The group of the Semitic Languages includes the languages of the old Fertile Crescent The Akkadian , the Canaanite, the Aramaic, the southern Arabic language and some of the African Horn languages such as the Amharic language.
The linguistics had put the Arabic language specifically in the middle Semitic group from the western Semitic languages. The Arabic language had been developing during hundreds of years, and after being born more than years before, it became, before The Islam , called the language of Modder.
And it had been used in the north of the island after it had demolished the old northern Arabic, and taken its place, while the old southern Arabic was called the language of Hemmier referring to the greatest king of Yemen that time. Moreover, the Arabic language is the first one to use the dad letter in the whole world, although the Albanian language use the same letter, the use of this letter went back to the arrival of the Islam and the Arabic language to Albany by the Ottomans. The guy is just really into Arabic!
But look at this comment above … perhaps you can go from Word to Mellel, and then mellel to InDesign? I keep getting a JavaScript error when I try to run the script.
Any ideas? Hi all, I am using an old version of Indesign, actually first Indesign CS and i have to import in indesign a text and its translation in Hebrew.
After the import from an unicode txt the Hebrew characters are totally messed because CS1 do not know the right to left rules. I work enough with the issue to make Hebrew backward-typing annoying … […]. Hi all, great resource. IndicPlus is a third party plugin supports Hebrew or Arabic languages. Hello, First of all, thank you for this page and the script! This script works from right to left but it works to much! Did you fixed it? Have you another solution?
This works! I am doing a book with Kaddish. I found fonts, no problem. My knowledge of Hebrew is small but enough to know that the words were backwards.
I had to turn them all individually-but it had to be correct. I can not thank you enough. The Arabic script is absolutely off. Hi Nadia, Can you provide me with an Arabic indesign file? I know the only way to do it is to copy my text and paste it into an already arabic text box. How to change text to read right to left-InDesign CC? Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page.
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