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1. #HOW TO CHANGE TEXT DIRECTION IN INDESIGN SOFTWARE#
2. #HOW TO CHANGE TEXT DIRECTION IN INDESIGN SERIES#

If that’s the case, however, chances are the copy of InDesign they are using will not be the ME version with support for RTL. Since most people are not going to buy InDesign just to put together one book, they probably will be using a copy at work, or have a friend who has a copy help them out. You could just put in a translation of the texts, but adding the original text, especially when the orginal may be hard to read, is a nice touch. Why would you want to use RTL languages in a genealogy book? Some examples include transcribing Jewish gravestones which in many cases are at least partially (and frequently wholly) in Hebrew, and transcribing handwritten Yiddish letters. InDesign itself is not cheap (about $650), but if you want to use RTL languages like Hebrew, Yiddish, or Arabic, it costs hundreds of dollars more for the ME (Middle East) version.

When publishing genealogy books there are genealogy programs that can output formatted reports and books (such as the book output options of Heredis and GEDitCOM II mentioned on Tuesday), but if you want a fully customized book that can be published professionally (or through an online publisher/printer like ) either you or someone else who is helping you will likely need to use InDesign.

#HOW TO CHANGE TEXT DIRECTION IN INDESIGN SOFTWARE#

The standard software for professional publishing these days is Adobe InDesign. This article looks at using those fonts to publish Hebrew, Yiddish or any Right-to-Left (RTL) language using Adobe InDesign, without having to buy the more expensive Adobe InDesign ME (which has extensive support for RTL languages). The first article looked at Finding Hebrew Fonts.

#HOW TO CHANGE TEXT DIRECTION IN INDESIGN SERIES#

This is the second article in a series on publishing text in Hebrew and Yiddish for genealogy books.