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I'm a new Nisus Writer Express user (switching from Nisus Writer). How does one insert the right-hand or left-hand dot over a shin/sin? (Hitting the shift key, as I did with Nisus writer, just creates a larger letter.)

How can one insert a cholam ("o" vowel)--just the dot--after a lamed without creating a visible space in the word?

David - Welcome to NWE!

I found the Keyboard viewer (look under the flag menu at the top of the screen) to be of help in learning where all the letters and vowels are.

For a Holem, use Option-O.

Option-W is a dotted Shin, Option-S is a dotted Sin, but Shift-W should also have given a normal dotted shin.

I have had trouble with certain Hebrew letters appearing large for no good reason -- make sure that you have a style configured for Hebrew (I have two, one for Hebrew paragraphs and the other for Hebrew characters/text inserted into an English paragraph). Try using Raanana or New Peninim MT, and make sure that you choose Hebrew as the language.

Doing this cut down on the # of problems I have had with Hebrew, but there are still a few remaining idiosyncrasies, which Mark Hurvitz (who works for Nisus, and is the Hebrew maven) and I have discussed numerous times.

Shalom,
David Krishef
P.S. [Not at the convention?]