Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Language Improvements In iOS and Mac Pages And Keynote

The new versions of iOS and Mac Pages and Keynote released by Apple April 1 have several new features for Arabic/Hebrew.

In Pages:

+New Arabic and Hebrew templates
+Improved support for bi-directional text
+Word count for Hebrew

In Keynote:

+Improved bi-directional support:  switch direction for text, lists and tables

I have not had a chance to test many of these yet, but I see that multicolumn text flow is now correct in Pages for RTL scripts.  To see the new templates you need to switch the OS language to Arabic/Hebrew.

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