I tried using docbook with Hebrew a while ago and I found out a couple of things: There is currently no tags in DocBook to support bidi explicitly (as in HTML). The tools for converting DocBook to other formats vary in their support for bidi. For example, you can easily convert to HTML, and rely on the bidi support of the browser, but you cannot transform DocBook/XML to hebrew latex (because latex needs explicit bidi, and DocBook doesn't have tags for that) and you cannot use fop, since it doesn't support bidi yet (the xml-fo standard defined it, but the implementation doesn't support it yet).
Good Luck, Haggai On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:45:33 +0200, Hillel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to write Hebrew manual's using Docbook/XML (I am using the > standard docbook.xsl for rendering). > I used the lang="he" tag on the root element, but the text is still > using a left to right direction. > I googled on this a little and didn't find any clear documentation on > docbook text direction issues. > I am not even certain if docbook is supposed to support BIDI, or if > there is any standard way of achieving right to left text direction. > > Does anyone has info on this? > > Thanks, > Hillel. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Haggai Eran ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
