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I want to write some text which includes Hebrew characters and numbers (by copy-pasting them, only for mathematical notation), specifically aleph-one (without access to MathJax or LaTeX).

The problem is that when I paste א and try to write the digit 1 next to it (without space in between), it appears on the left, no matter where the cursor is. I tried to work around it in a few ways and it doesn't seem to work any way I tried -- the aleph always appears to the right of the 1. Is this a bug? If not, how am I supposed to do it?

The version is 16.04. The issue occurs in any textarea.

tomasz
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  • Select the 1א string and right-click. I have an option "Writing direction..." there, don't you? Choose "Right to left". (this will also right-justify the selected text, which may not be what you want.) – Jos Oct 26 '16 at 10:11
  • @Joe: I can't see this option. Not in Firefox (where I want to do it) and not in gedit. I don't want the text to be right-justified, but I suspect it doesn't matter (as I was going to write it in a CMS). By the way, I just put in \aleph_1. – tomasz Oct 26 '16 at 10:17
  • I don't have such an option in gedit either, and I don't have Firefox but I have it in Chrome. – Jos Oct 26 '16 at 10:29

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