Re: Re: RTL/LTR directional tags

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:19, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> I assume that a proper Arabic editor inserts this character at the
> very beginning of the file or allows you to put it easily.
> 
Not really. A proper editor would have proper Bidi support ;) The only
editor that comes off the top of my head which can do this is Yudit. I
cannot say it is very popular among the Arabic users' community.

> Another solution is to modifiy the Docbook stylesheets to insert the
> character when they encounter a lang="ar". But it does not solve the
> case of mixed texts (hence the need to be able to add easily RTL and
> LTR markers).

Any specific documentation as to how to go about doing that? Consider me
completely and absolutely ignorant ;)

Regards
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