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[docbook-apps] Re: Re: RTL/LTR directional tags
- From: Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>
- To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr>
- Cc: doc at arabeyes dot org, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:25:59 +0400
- Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: Re: RTL/LTR directional tags
- Organization: Arabeyes
- References: <1076922935.606.53.camel@localhost> <20040216094123.GA24248@nic.fr> <1076926256.606.61.camel@localhost> <20040216101922.GA25451@nic.fr>
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:19, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> I assume that a proper Arabic editor inserts this character at the
> very beginning of the file or allows you to put it easily.
>
Not really. A proper editor would have proper Bidi support ;) The only
editor that comes off the top of my head which can do this is Yudit. I
cannot say it is very popular among the Arabic users' community.
> Another solution is to modifiy the Docbook stylesheets to insert the
> character when they encounter a lang="ar". But it does not solve the
> case of mixed texts (hence the need to be able to add easily RTL and
> LTR markers).
Any specific documentation as to how to go about doing that? Consider me
completely and absolutely ignorant ;)
Regards
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