On 2017-01-04 10:27, Hussein Shafie wrote:
On 01/04/2017 11:53 AM, Ashok Hariharan wrote:
I know, I have asked this before, but just in the hope that things may
be changing...
Is there any plan to support LTR text for FO to DOCX in xsl-fo
converter
in the near future ? Seems to be a requirement I keep running into....
We certainly understand this requirement.
Ashok Hariharan wrote:
Sorry I meant RTL (as in Arabic .... ) :-)
I'm sorry but the answer is the same: we currently don't plan to
support RTL languages in any of our products.
This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, and I forget whether
I suggested it before. But: we have for years done typesetting of
grammars where the language being described is written in a
right-to-left script (usually Perso-Arabic, either Naskh or Nasta'liq,
but also the Thaana script). We use XXE to write the grammar (it
supports the input and display of R2L script just fine*), but typeset it
using dblatex, which uses LaTeX as a backend (we use XeLaTeX, which is
Unicode-aware). Because our grammars switch back and forth between
Roman script and the R2L script, we tag the R2L strings for their
language. There may be a way to avoid that extra tagging; certainly if
the entire document was in Arabic or some other R2L script, it would not
be necessary.
*There is actually a Java (not XXE's fault) bug with the display of
Thaana. We have a work-around, but that's probably irrelevant for you.
Mike Maxwell
University of Maryland
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