Yiddish word processing.

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Geraldine at JMI has suggested that all the Yiddish be in a separate section.
This would obviate the need for lining up the text in the two languages.  This 
is
a good suggestion, practically speaking, but would it bother anyone on this list
to not have the Yiddish by the transliteration and translation, or would that be
a minor inconvenience.  I am thinking of those people who are new to Yiddish, 
and
that it would be more helpful to have the Yiddish text by the others, for
learning purposes.

Has anyone used the Hebrew in Word 2000 for Yiddish?  If so, how did you create
the Yiddish characters?

Thanks again,
Lorele


Susan Lerner wrote:

> At 12:11 AM 2/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Message-ID: <3A91DF0C(dot)12501795 (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
> >Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:05:48 -0500
> >From: Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> >Subject: "G-d"/Yiddish word processing
> >
> >Okay, I need another bit of help.  For those of you who type Yiddish and
> >have done so for lyrics on an "album", what program have you used?  I
> >haven't found anything easy enough for me to use that has all the
> >Yiddish characters needed.  Any suggestions from you wonderful crew?
> >
> >nokh a mol - a dank,
> >Lorele
>
> I use Q-Text, at the suggestion of  the UYIP people.  It is an Israeli word
> processor which is set up to handle Yiddish.  It only runs on the PC
> platform.  I have had good success transferring the Yiddish into Word, but
> generally do most of my Yiddish typing in Q-Text, as it is much easier to
> move up and back between Yiddish and English in Q-Text than in Word.  It is
> doable in Word, however, I just haven't bothered to figure out how to do it
> (i.e., followed the UYIP instructions carefully enough) .
>
> For lyrics, Q-Text doesn't really have a good column function, so I end up
> setting up a table, typing the Yiddish in one cell and the English in the
> other and then eliminating any border to the cells.  Works just fine.
>
> The real question is what will happen to the text once you've typed it in
> Yiddish?  Will you then have to transfer it into a graphics
> program.  Hoo-ha!  Different set of problems there.  If your designer is
> using Quark, you have an extra step to make your Yiddish work in the lay-out.
>
> Ari's right.  UYIP is the place to ask.
>
> Shira
>

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