On Wednesday 20 November 2002 12:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Arie Folger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > * html does not contain dir=rtl tags, an issue when a paragraph starts
> > with certain sequences, such as "1.", which should be displayed as ".1",
> > for rudimentary numbered lists, also, otherwise bullets are on the wrong
> > side of the page
>
> I'm surprised you expect this, since KWord doesn't actually have paragraph
> direction. There is no facility for it. It simply guesses the direction
> from the first character in the paragraph. This is a very bad behavior for
> a word processor which claims to be "BiDi".
Well, are you using 1.2? managed to change paragraph direction using
shift-ctrl. I forgot to mention why this is so upsetting: Kword uses
align=right, instead, which is truly hideous.
> Anyways, standard-compliant HTML should NOT use DIR=RTL tags. This is a
> stylesheet issue. It should have a CLASS="rightToLeft" tag, or something
> like that, and have a stylesheet containing "direction: rtl" for that
> class. Alternatively it should have a STYLE="direction: rtl" attribute.
>
> Herouth
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