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Salam, I am trying (helplessly) to figure out how to use DocBook/XML to produce Arabic documentation. This is probably not the first time I approach this issue, but I am going at it again. At Arabeyes [1], we use DocBook/XML for all our documentation. Unfortunately, for the Arabic documents we have two problems: 1. The HTML output is in LTR mode (should be in RTL) 2. None of the XSL-Fo's I know of (we use Apache's FOP [2]) can handle Arabic text (not the UTF-8 nor the bidi mode). Currently, what we have been doing is adding a CSS that sets the direction to rtl. This is not a good enough solution, since browsers are instructed that they can happily ignore those in CSS [3]. It is noted that this should be in the mark-up. So, where in all of this do we go from here? I am completely lost! References: [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/ [2] http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/#IDAMJFO Regards -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.fakkir.net/ | -------------------------------------------------------
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