Re: Editing Arabic TEI

Am 03.02.2017 um 09:53 schrieb Radu Coravu:
> 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.

Dear Radu, dear participants,

we of the Averroes project (Uni of Cologne, DARE, CCeH) [1] have plenty 
of material I can send you to illustrate the "ergonomic" problems that 
editors are facing when using oXygen to edit Arabic but also Hebrew 
texts. I'll contact you privately.

Mostly it has to do with a clash of expectations between what happens 
when letters are typed and how things appear on the screen, for example 
when Latin characters (tags or punctuation marks) and Arabic characters 
are on the same line.

A concrete example. Suppose that A, B and C are Arabic letters and | is 
the cursor. If you type "<line>", then A, then B then C, you get the 
following result (correct)

<line>|CBA

If, at that point, you type a period, you will get the incorrect

<line>|CBA.

instead of correct version

<line>|.CBA

I used "incorrect", but the behaviour is not really incorrect. As David 
said, one can see the engineering reasons behind it, but the editors are 
used to other word processing applications and the behaviour of oXygen 
just feels wrong to them.

This is just an example. There are plenty of more complicated cases I 
can illustrate. Solving them would improve the quality of life of the 
editors and transcribers very much. ;)

Regards,

[1] http://averroes.uni-koeln.de/

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