On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:38:13 +0100, Dave Pawson <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I would rather specify what I'm writing rather than > leave it to the code point. > > Although I'm unsure who / what would do that? The formatter?
There's a general DocBook attr @dir, see: http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/ref-elements.html For spans of text within e.g. a paragraph, you might use this attr on a <phrase>. That said, I'm not sure how well the formatting tools use this. We use dblatex, and I don't recall how well this attr is supported; there's this comment in the file dblatex-0.3/xsl/common/l10n.xsl: <!-- FIXME: This is sort of hack, but it was the easiest way to add at least partial support for dir attribute --> There are also two Unicode chars for this purpose, see: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H34.html In our own grammar work, we have added a few elements in our DocBook localization for text in right-to-left languages, which of course necessitated our writing some special XSLT code for the conversion to XeTeX. Mike Maxwell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
