If you need to know how to install scripts, click here. To download the script, right-click on this link and choose Save As (or Save Target As or whatever your browser calls it). ![]() That is, if you select “abcde” and run the script, you get “edcba”. Peter Kahrel was kind enough to write a little script that reverses the order of any selected text. The ME version is great if you have a lot of Hebrew or Arabic text, but what if you only need to set a word or a phrase? Rachel’s email prompted me to take action: Get a script! But this doesn’t work in InDesign for some reason. I remember working on the book and discovering that I could copy Hebrew out of MS Word and paste it into PageMaker, and it would retain it’s right-to-left appearance. (Diane Burns wrote a great article about this in Issue 13 of InDesign Magazine.) But with InDesign, you have long needed to use the ME (middle-eastern) version of the program, developed and published by Winsoft, and available in the United States by FontWorld. Many text editors and word processors, such as Microsoft Word, can handle right-to-left text just fine. Back then I tried for days to figure out how to get the bits of Hebrew we needed into InDesign. ![]() I can totally understand this frustration! Some of you may know that back in 2001 I co-authored a book called Judaism For Dummies. I work enough with the issue to make Hebrew backward-typing annoying yet not enough to warrant InDesign ME. In InDesign I sometimes have to work with small bits of Hebrew text.
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