Re: [docbook-apps] Writing Hebrew in docbook

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Hillel wrote:

> I am using Mandrake 10.1 and I am trying to create a guide (html) using 
> docbook xml (dtd 4.2, xsl stylesheets 1.65).
> 
> I am trying to write a Hebrew guide which means the stylesheets have to 
> produce right to left html output, and use Hebrew words for words that 
> are placed by xsl (like prev, next, table of contents).
> 
> As I am completely new to docbook, I would like to know if there are any 
> existing xsl's to assist me, or if there is a standard way of achieving 
> such task other then hacking the docbook xsl's.

Try to put lang="he" on your root (document) element. E.g.

<!DOCTYPE ...>
<book lang="he">
   ...
</book>

This should be sufficient to get correct Hebrew output. If there are 
some problems, then report them here and submit them as bugs on 
SourceForge site also.

				Jirka

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