Re: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] my patch to fix RTL problems in docbook

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

The latest stylesheet snapshot now has the writing mode implemented for the 
various locales. The gentext files such as common/en.xml now have an entry 
for "writing-mode" which indicates text direction.  Most are set to "lr-tb" 
(left to right, top to bottom), but ar, he, and fa (Arabic, Hebrew and 
Farsi) use "rl-tb" (right to left, top to bottom).  If there are other 
languages that need this change, let me know.

For the latter languages, the "start" alignment now is "right", and the 
"end" alignment is "left".  In addition, the BODY element gets a dir="rtl" 
attribute, so the HTML pages are laid out right to left. This also has the 
effect of laying out tables with column one on the right, bullet lists with 
bullets on the right, etc.

These changes currently apply only to HTML and XHTML outputs.  I'm going to 
look at the FO output next.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
To: "DocBook Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Muayyad AlSadi" 
<alsadi@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:48 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] my patch to fix RTL problems in 
docbook


> Not quite.  The docbook-apps mailing list is where applications such as 
> DocBook XSL are discussed, so I'm moving this over to that list.  8^)
>
> I looked at your patch, and I think the changes you propose are 
> appropriate. However, I'd like to implement them in a different way.  I 
> don't want to see lang values in the stylesheet modules, so I'd like to 
> indicate the writing direction in the locale files in the common 
> subdirectory, and use that value to enact the alignment value for each 
> language.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Muayyad AlSadi" <alsadi@gmail.com>
> To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:43 AM
> Subject: [docbook] my patch to fix RTL problems in docbook
>
>
>> hi,
>>
>> is this the right place to discuss this patch
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2402595&group_id=21935&atid=373749
>>
>> and get it applied
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org
>> For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-help@lists.oasis-open.org
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-open.org
>
>
>