Re: Editing Arabic TEI

Hi,

As a developer working for Oxygen XML Editor I fully agree with 
Frederik's analysis. The Author visual editing mode should be more 
comfortable for RTL editing.

About David's remark:

> The Author view obviously (no angle brackets) didn't do that, but
> it broke onto new lines in places that made sense from an engineering
> perspective, but that made the continuous text harder to read.

If you have some sample TEI documents and give us some hints about what 
does not work as expected we could try to improve the behavior in a 
future version. Unfortunately we do not use RTL writing ourselves so 
sometimes it's hard for us to understand what the expected editing 
behaviors should be, that's why we need help with this.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 2/3/2017 10:46 AM, Frederik Elwert wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> I helped a colleague set up Oxygen for editing an Arabic manuscript. It
> works quite okay. Indeed, the Author view is more suited for substantial
> work on the text, but I guess this is an inherent problem of XML for RTL
> languages: The tags themselves run LTR, the text in between in the other
> direction, so the cursor swaps direction all the time, making the
> behaviour slightly unpredictable all the time.
>
> Best,
> Frederik
>
>
>
> Am 02.02.2017 um 22:34 schrieb Birnbaum, David J:
>> Dear TEI-L,
>>
>> I don't work with Arabic texts myself, but some of my students and
>> colleagues do, and one has just asked me to recommend an XML editor. I use
>> Oxygen for all of my own work, and I've watched the video that SyncroSoft
>> produced about editing Arabic in the Oxygen Author view, but before I
>> point my colleague in that and only that direction, I wanted to ask what
>> others have used to edit Arabic TEI documents. When I've poked at Arabic
>> in Oxygen before (older versions, though, so the following may no longer
>> be the case), the Text view sometimes stranded angle brackets in the wrong
>> place. The Author view obviously (no angle brackets) didn't do that, but
>> it broke onto new lines in places that made sense from an engineering
>> perspective, but that made the continuous text harder to read. All in all,
>> it was usable, but should my colleague also be considering alternatives?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
>