OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Re: [office] Bi-directional text.

  • 1.  Re: [office] Bi-directional text.

    Posted 05-10-2006 06:46
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    Subject: Re: [office] Bi-directional text.


    You can have LTR text in a RTL paragraph by using left-to-right-mark and 
    right-to-left-mark or RTL/LTR-embedding unicode characters in the text. 
    unicode offerers these for exactly that purpose.
    In OpenOffice 2.0, the insert-menu offers functions to insert those 
    marks when working in a CTL environment. The unicode bi-di algorithm 
    will when be applied accordingly.
    
    I can see, how the same can be done with direction-attributes for 
    span-elements. Nevertheless, the current solution works and I am not 
    aware of any use-cases not covered by it. Do you know of any?
    
    Bests
    /lars
    
    
    Daniel Carrera wrote:
    > Hello,
    > 
    > OpenDocument only supports bidi up to the paragraph level:
    > 
    > * Section 15.2.19 - Page writing mode - p. 547
    > * Section 15.5.36 - Paragraph writing mode - p. 591
    > * Section 15.7.8  - Section writing mode - p. 599
    > * Section 15.8.13 - Table writing mode - p. 603
    > 
    > The writing mode attribute should also apply to the <text:span> tag so 
    > we can have (e.g.) LTR text inside a RTL paragraph.
    > 
    > Cheers,
    > Daniel.
    
    


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