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Re: [docbook-apps] RTL/LTR directional tags
- From: Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>
- To: David Tolpin <dvd at davidashen dot net>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org, doc at arabeyes dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:48:39 +0400
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] RTL/LTR directional tags
- Organization: Arabeyes
- References: <200402161102.i1GB2At9065885@adat.davidashen.net>
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 15:02, David Tolpin wrote:
> This is strange. Is the output encoding UTF-8? I've just typed in
> a document in a mix of English and Hebrew and Mozilla shows it correctly.
> Can you point us to a page which is not displayed correctly in Mozilla?
>
I don't have one handy (could get one by tomorrow -- work is getting
busy).. but you may grab this:
http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/guide/translator-guide-ar/
and remove the explicit marks for directionality. Even with that, the
table of contents is LTR.
> Columns in a table are ordered according to the writing-mode assigned to the table;
> I suppose it is lr-tb by default; use CSS to assign a different writing mode
> to the table if it is what you need. Again, can you please show us a page
> where the problem shows up?
I'm not sure how I can do that. Any documentation you can refer me to?
> Why would you want to render Arabic in LTR?
>
Oh.. no ;) Misunderstanding from my end.
>
> What processor are you using?
>
For SGML/DocBook? jade. For XML I'm currently experimenting with
'xmlto'.
Regards
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