Language: עברית
Writing Direction Menu helps writers using right to left languages like Hebrew, Arabic and Farsi under Mac OS X.
Features:
This is the first publicly distributed version, beta versions notwithstanding.
Changes in this version:
Requires Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or later, Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) recommended. The Menu is very useful on Jaguar too, despite its limited support for writing direction.
If you don't have administration privileges, you can install the menu for yourself in the Library folder in your home folder.
The writing direction menu appears after the Help menu in all Cocoa applications. If it doesn't appear, relaunch the application.
You can change the writing direction by menu commands, convenient keyboard shortcuts (Control + arrows) and the writing direction panel. If the Writing Direction menu or panel is disabled (grayed-out), the application or text box you're using doesn't support changing the writing direction.
When editing rich text, you can set the writing direction of individual paragraphs. When editing plain text, you can temporarily change the direction of the whole text. Writing direction is not saved in plain text documents.
DirectionService inserts invisible direction characters into which set the direction of the text. Support for direction characters isn't uniform across different platforms and applications. Writing Direction Menu set the paragraph style base writing direction, a feature of the Cocoa text system.
DirectionService is fully functional on Jaguar, while Writing Direction Menu is only fully functional on Panther. When editing text that will only be read on Panther, the Writing Direction Menu is more convenient to use, but if you want compatibility with Jaguar users, or the ability to control the direction of multiple characters within a paragraph, DirectionService is the preferred solution.
In applications where the Writing Direction Menu isn't necessary, such as Mellel, you can prevent the menu from loading by adding the key WDDontInstallWritingDirectionMenu and the value YES into the application defaults.
Third party developers may add this key to the application factory defaults. Users may add the key to their personal defaults using the defaults command in the Terminal. For example, removing the menu from Mellel:
defaults write com.redlex.mellel \ WDDontInstallWritingDirectionMenu YES
Jaguar has poor support for writing direction:
Writing Direction Menu — helps writers using right to left languages.
Copyright © 2003-2004 Nir Soffer
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