Re: Arabic Support

On 2017-01-04 10:27, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> On 01/04/2017 11:53 AM, Ashok Hariharan wrote:
>> I know, I have asked this before, but just in the hope that things may
>> be changing...
>> 
>> Is there any plan to support LTR text for FO to DOCX in xsl-fo 
>> converter
>> in the near future ? Seems to be a requirement I keep running into....
>> 
> We certainly understand this requirement.
> 
> Ashok Hariharan wrote:
>> Sorry I meant RTL (as in Arabic .... )  :-)
> 
> I'm sorry but the answer is the same: we currently don't plan to
> support RTL languages in any of our products.

This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, and I forget whether 
I suggested it before.  But: we have for years done typesetting of 
grammars where the language being described is written in a 
right-to-left script (usually Perso-Arabic, either Naskh or Nasta'liq, 
but also the Thaana script).  We use XXE to write the grammar (it 
supports the input and display of R2L script just fine*), but typeset it 
using dblatex, which uses LaTeX as a backend (we use XeLaTeX, which is 
Unicode-aware).  Because our grammars switch back and forth between 
Roman script and the R2L script, we tag the R2L strings for their 
language.  There may be a way to avoid that extra tagging; certainly if 
the entire document was in Arabic or some other R2L script, it would not 
be necessary.

*There is actually a Java (not XXE's fault) bug with the display of 
Thaana.  We have a work-around, but that's probably irrelevant for you.

    Mike Maxwell
    University of Maryland

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