The latest stylesheet snapshot now has the writing mode implemented for the
various locales. The gentext files such as common/en.xml now have an entry
for "writing-mode" which indicates text direction. Most are set to "lr-tb"
(left to right, top to bottom), but ar, he, and fa (Arabic, Hebrew and
Farsi) use "rl-tb" (right to left, top to bottom). If there are other
languages that need this change, let me know.
For the latter languages, the "start" alignment now is "right", and the
"end" alignment is "left". In addition, the BODY element gets a dir="rtl"
attribute, so the HTML pages are laid out right to left. This also has the
effect of laying out tables with column one on the right, bullet lists with
bullets on the right, etc.
These changes currently apply only to HTML and XHTML outputs. I'm going to
look at the FO output next.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stayton" <[email protected]>
To: "DocBook Apps" <[email protected]>; "Muayyad AlSadi"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:48 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] my patch to fix RTL problems in
docbook
Not quite. The docbook-apps mailing list is where applications such as
DocBook XSL are discussed, so I'm moving this over to that list. 8^)
I looked at your patch, and I think the changes you propose are
appropriate. However, I'd like to implement them in a different way. I
don't want to see lang values in the stylesheet modules, so I'd like to
indicate the writing direction in the locale files in the common
subdirectory, and use that value to enact the alignment value for each
language.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Muayyad AlSadi" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:43 AM
Subject: [docbook] my patch to fix RTL problems in docbook
hi,
is this the right place to discuss this patch
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2402595&group_id=21935&atid=373749
and get it applied
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