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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] RTL/LTR directional tags
> Not quiet. For example, we write our documents in SGML/DocBook (trying > to move to XML here). Unfortunately, when we generate the HTML output, > it is all in LTR. The browser doesn't know any better. Mozilla, yes.. > IE, the whole gang. We then have to run scripts against the generated > HTML files to add meta tags to set the proper directions. This is strange. Is the output encoding UTF-8? I've just typed in a document in a mix of English and Hebrew and Mozilla shows it correctly. Can you point us to a page which is not displayed correctly in Mozilla? > The problem is that when you have a table, which may intermix RTL and > LTR languages.. then the browser is confused. We cannot rely on browsers > at this point. Columns in a table are ordered according to the writing-mode assigned to the table; I suppose it is lr-tb by default; use CSS to assign a different writing mode to the table if it is what you need. Again, can you please show us a page where the problem shows up? > > > English or Georgian in RTL, or Arabic in LTR. But it does not seem > > to be your case. > > > > But it is! Why would you want to render Arabic in LTR? > > > > > So just output your text without thinking about writing-modes, > > a good browser (Mozilla for example) will handle it just right. > > The same holds for XSL FO output. > > Speaking of which, XSL FO pdf output comes out as garbage. But that's > another topic (I wanted to know how to explicitly add fonts) ;) > What processor are you using?
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