Re: different writing-modes in one document

Tony Graham <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:45:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xmlroff.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Sep 28 2008 11:23:15 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
...
> Inside the documents are parts (fo:table-cell or fo:block), that
> should have the "lr-tb" writing-mode, otherwise it's garbled.
> (It is very common for technical documentation in any language
> to have English paragraphs here and there.)
>
> How can I achieve this? I tried setting the writing-mode
> attribute to "lr-tb" directly on fo:table-cell and fo:block, and
> I tried to set direction="ltr". Also I tried inserting an
> fo:inline-container, but with or without attributes, the table
> cell becomes empty/invisible.

Please open a ticket (and, probably, a second ticket for the
inline-container behaviour).

Simple FO test cases that could be added to the xmlroff testsuite would
help, too.

Regards,


Tony.