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[docbook-apps] Re: RTL/LTR directional tags
- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr>
- To: David Tolpin <dvd at davidashen dot net>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org, elzubeir at arabeyes dot org, doc at arabeyes dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:26:17 +0100
- Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: RTL/LTR directional tags
- Organization: NIC France
- References: <1076922935.606.53.camel@localhost> <200402161013.i1GADffx065582@adat.davidashen.net>
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:13:41PM +0400,
David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net> wrote
a message of 33 lines which said:
> this should not be your problem, but the problem of a browser
> used to render the generated HTML documents.
This assumes that the Docbook toolchain produced the proper HTML, with
the indications it has about the language used. And it leaves open the
issue of mixed texts.
> So just output your text without thinking about writing-modes,
> a good browser (Mozilla for example) will handle it just right.
> The same holds for XSL FO output.
Did you actually try it? Which FO formatters do it properly?
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