Re: [docbook-apps] RTL in markup/docbook/??

[elzubeir at arabeyes dot org (Mohammed Elzubeir)]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Markus Schütz wrote:
> I see. At this point of the discussion, the question is more to the 
> people in charge of the official DocBook stylesheets. I do not know how 
> they handle RTL output in their stylesheet releases.
> 
> Anyway, if the out of the box solution does not fit your your needs, 
> your only option would be to customize the XSL (or DSSSL, if you use 
> JADE) stylesheets in order to hard-code the text direction from right to 
> left, for example under the condition that book/@lang="ar".
> But this should not be too complex. I would assume that it only affects 
> three or four templates in the entire DocBook to HTML process.
> 

Great -- that does sound like where I want to be (the xsl stylesheets).
Any specific documentation I should look at to know exactly where to add
conditions and/or how to, etc.?

Regards
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