My new computer arrived today, which I might not have known as I'm having trouble setting up my voicemail for the land line, except that I ran into my RA, who said the mailroom had been trying to find me because I had "a gigantic package" (it wasn't that huge a box, in my opinion...), so I went down and ta-da, here it was, pretty much all set to go. Now I just need to figure out how one persuades Word to do Hebrew as well, and I'll Really be all set to go, besides putting my set of saved files on, and then at some point in the future snabbing my music back from my old computer/Em. But I am once again able to access the world via internet at hours of my own choosing. And this thing is very long and very skinny- not at all what I was expecting, but quite, quite cheerful.

In the meantime, there's laynen to learn, I did a quick check on my nusakh for P'sukei D'Zimra with one of my neighbors, I have boiled eggs to turn into deviled eggs (and any way I spell that, it looks wrong, so my apologies if it should have had another 'l'), and a good amoutn of straightening to do.

From: [identity profile] elfsdh.livejournal.com


Word handles Hebrew, but not very well. It has problems with left-to-right and right-to-left text appearing on the same line, and some versions won't change the font size, no matter how many times you press the button.

I've actually found that Openoffice.org 2.0 handles the Hebrew issues better than Word.
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From: [identity profile] elfsdh.livejournal.com


Conversion is rarely perfect, even between two different versions of MS Office (and sometimes between two different *builds* of the same version of MS Office, as anyone who's tried to transfer equations between copies of Word might tell you). Especially if you do something in any way complicated, it's best to use a program's native format (for OOo, it's OpenDocument format).

Font and spacing conversion issues usually have less to do with what program reads the document as what fonts happened to be available and used on the particular computers.

From: [identity profile] margavriel.livejournal.com


For some reason, your e-mail account is rejecting e-mails from my subsidiary account as spam. Therefore, I am re-sending this message as a comment on your LJ. If I get a chance to get to a computer that can access my Yahoo account, I shall re-send it that way.

I need to be in Riverdale (in the Bronx) at 8:00 PM, so please visit me at OZ before dinner, rather than afterward. If your last class ends at 5:30, you should be able to arrive at OZ around 6:00, if not earlier. See you then.

(Please send confirmation response to my mail.com address. Thanks.)

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You're very lucky that I saw this- I might not have. Before dinner? You really want me to come straight from class? I will be stopping by my own room to put things away, and you'll just have to deal. I'll be there when I get there- probably a little after 6, depending on how long it takes me to walk over, and whether my class gets out on time or not- how often do you see classes at the end of the day end on time?
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