On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:21:35PM -0700, Anthony Fok wrote: > > > I just noticed that on the Arabic translation, which is right-to-left, > > > the rounded edges on the red navbar are pointing in the wrong > > > direction, at least in *shrug* MSIE. > > > > Do you know how to fix it? Is there a way to force <html dir="LTR"> on the > > the navbar table? Perhaps <span dir="LTR"> or something like that... > > Actually, I think I was the culprit here. Some months ago, I changed > the following line in webwml/english/template/debian/basic.wml from: > > <HTML lang="$(CUR_ISO_LANG)"> > to > <HTML lang="$(CUR_ISO_LANG)"[AR: dir="RTL":][HE: dir="RTL":]> > > So *everything* goes from right-to-left, just just the text, but the menu > too. (The menu bar got switched from the left to the right hand side.) > It wasn't a big problem back then, so I didn't worry about it. However, I > see that there are more problems than I imagined. :-)
Indeed ;) > I have just reversed the change, and that should fix the problem. You should be able to make only the text go from right to left by placing dir="RTL" in the appropriate parts of the pages, but that would require changing $(TEMPLDIR)/basic.wml so I'd recommend not doing anything until it's verified that the change would be final :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
