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ggoering I was having the holem problem that Matthew described some months ago, and I found a fix for my situation. In the process I learned a bit more about how the SBL Hebrew font/keyboard interacts with my setup (windows XP sp2, ms word 2003 sp2, and most version 1.5 of the font/keyboard). I used TNR as my default font, and when I switch to my Hebrew keyboard via the hotkey, Word kept my font as TNR. So, even though I thought I was using the SBL Hebrew font, I was actually using the Hebrew font in TNR. This was the source of my holem spacing problem.
In order to have the SBL font come up automatically whenever I hot switch, I changed my default font settings in Word. Under the Format menu I clicked Font... I kept my Latin text font as TNR, but I changed my Complex scripts font to SBL Hebrew. When I first tried to change my complex script font, SBL Hebrew did not appear in the list. So I changed my Latin text font to SBL Hebrew, clicked the default button on the bottom left. This made SBL Hebrew show up in the Complex script fonts, which I selected and again hit default. Then I could change my Latin text font back to TNR, hit default again, and everything stayed the way I wanted.
I don't know how this will work with other complex fonts. Right now I'm mostly using English and Hebrew. If there is a better way to do this, I would appreciate knowing. But this solution allows me to switch between Hebrew and English and back again with a single hotkey, without also having to select the SBL font in a separate action.
