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Subject: Re: [office-comment] marking directionality of text inside a paragraph
2011/10/18, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>: <snip /> > Just for comparison: OpenOffice doesn't try to handle inline > directionality at all. Microsoft Word tries to handle it automatically > by assuming inline directionality according to the keyboard layout; > for example, when the user switches the keyboard layout from English > to Hebrew, Word adds a virtual <span dir="rtl">-like thing at that > point. Unfortunately, Word doesn't provide any way to remove this > virtual direction marker except deleting the characters surrounding > it, and it doesn't provide any way to change the directionality of > text that was already written. > It seems OOo handles inline directionality quite well. I enabled support for CTL in the 'Tools => Options ... => Language Settings => Languages' section. Then I copy-pasted the name from the e-mail. There seems to be a problem with punctuation, though. A document at http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/ArabicProgsx.html#funct provides more detail. Hope this can help somewhat somehow. ;)Frode > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > -- > This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the > OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC. > > In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and > to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required > before posting. > > Subscribe: office-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > Unsubscribe: office-comment-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > List help: office-comment-help@lists.oasis-open.org > List archive: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/ > Feedback License: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > Committee: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office > Join OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org/join/ > > -- Da sa Gud: "Det bli lys!" Og det ble lys. 1. Mosebok 1.3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. Genesis 1:3, NIV
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