It would be wonderful if they add something like that to DocBook standard. For now you can use a .css file with "direction: rtl" set in it for your documents.
Haggai On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:01:59 +0200, Hillel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haggai Eran wrote: > > >There is currently no tags in DocBook to support bidi explicitly (as in > >HTML). > >For example, you can easily convert to HTML, and rely on the bidi > >support of the browser > > > Thanks for the help. > > My problem is with the missing dir="rtl" in Docbook/XML to set the > paragraph direction and alignment. This means I have to manually edit > the HTML files. While this is not too hard I think that it's an ugly > solution, that is very hard to maintain. > > While googeling on this I came across this very interesting thread: > > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200302/msg00106.html > > It seems the docbook technical committee confronted this issue back in > 2003, and if you follow the thread, you can see they decided a direction > attribute should be added as a common attribute to the docbook DTD. > > I will dig in the documentation some more and if I don't find anything, > I will try and post a message to the docbook mailing list to check what > happened to the attribute. > > Regards, > > Hillel. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Haggai Eran ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
