On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, at 18:28, Mills, Douglas G wrote:
> Don't know how far this helps, but a quick test shows that wrapping
> the content of your problem in a div with an id of "problemwrapper"
> and adding the following style moves the text field to the left end of
> the prompt. Text-entry in the text field is still left to right so
> there are still more issues to be addressed, but perhaps this gives a
> step forward? I have not tried anything with your second example.>
> <style type="text/css">
> #problemwrapper input[type="text"]{float:left;margin-right:20px;}
> </style>
Yes! Indeed a step forward. Thank you.
At the moment I am not worried about text-entry. All responses will be
formulas or numerical. Units will be SI symbols.
A follow-up question: normally this mechanism should be robust to system
upgrades; right?
Itay
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Mills
> Director of Instructional Technology
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Illinois
>
>
> *From: *LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org> on
> behalf of Itay <it...@nospammail.net> *Reply-To: *Discussion list for
> LON-CAPA users <lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org> *Date: *Tuesday,
> June 5, 2018 at 8:35 AM *To: *Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
> <lon-capa-us...@mail.lon-
> capa.org> *Cc: *Yair Naveh <ya...@jce.ac.il> *Subject: *[LON-CAPA-
> users] Full support for Right-To-Left languages?>
> Hi
>
> We are interested in developing content in Hebrew which is a Right-to-
> left (RTL) language.> We have authored several test problems in order to see
> the extent of
> RTL support.> To achieve correct directionality of the text within sentences
> we have
> used the <span> tags with the RTL attribute.> However, this does not provide
> good support for RTL alignment of
> paragraphs.> For example, in a radiobutton response, the radio buttons appear
> on
> the wrong side, see minimal example below.>
> We haven’t found in the manuals any instructions for authoring content
> in RTL languages.> We wonder if full RTL support is available for Lon-Capa
> content and
> interface (including menus, etc.).> If such support is not available
> built-in, we would appreciate any
> information as regard to implementing such support.>
> Minimal examples follow below.
> (Note: this message was sent to the developers' list but did not
> receive any response. So we try our luck here.)> Thank you in advance.
>
> Itay Furman & Yair Naveh
> Jerusalem College of Engineering, Israel
>
>
> <problem>
> <!-- Test full RTL support : demonstrate wrong placement of
> submission field. -->> <script type="loncapa/perl">
> $a=&random(1,10,1); $b=&random(1,10,1); $c=$a+$b;
> </script>
> <startouttext />
> <translated>
> <span dir="rtl">חשבו: כמה זה $a + $b?</span>
> </translated>
> <endouttext />
> <numericalresponse answer="$c">
> <textline />
> </numericalresponse>
> </problem>
>
>
> <problem>
> <!-- Test full RTL support :
> demonstrate wrong placement of radiobuttions, and wrong
> alignment of margins. -->> <span dir="rtl">
> <startouttext />
> כמה זה 1+1?
> <endouttext />
> <radiobuttonresponse max="10" randomize="yes">
> <foilgroup>
> <foil location="random" value="true" name="foil1">
> <startouttext />2 (זוהי תשובה נכונה).<endouttext />
> </foil>
> <foil location="random" value="false" name="foil2">
> <startouttext />4 (זוהי תשובה שקרית).<endouttext />
> </foil>
> <foil location="random" value="false" name="foil3">
> <startouttext />5.5 (זוהי תשובה שקרית).<endouttext />
> </foil>
> </foilgroup>
> </radiobuttonresponse>
> </span>
> </problem>
>
>
> <problem>
> <!-- Test full RTL support : demonstrates correct mixture of RTL and
> LTR pieces. -->> <startouttext />
> <span dir="rtl">
> לפני המשוואה <!-- This text precedes the equation (on the
> right). -->> <m>\(c = a + b \)</m>
> אחרי המשוואה. <!-- This text follows the equation (on the
> left). -->> <br />
> לפני האנגלית, <!-- This text precedes the english text. -->
> english text between hebrew text,
> אחרי האנגלית. <!-- This text follows the english text. -->
> </span>
> <endouttext />
> </problem>
>
>
> Done minimal examples.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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