Beni Cherniavksy wrote:
I was able to change the paragraph directions manually but I can't see
how do I embed a span of LTR text into an RTL paragraph (or vice
versa) in OO! Are RLM/LRM/LRE/RLE/PDF chars the only way to do it
from the UI? If true, this software is badly broken for Israeli
users. MS's ways of attaching direction to characters by keyboard
layout is not optimal but at least it's accessible and discoverable.
There are already issues in OO's Bugzilla (so-called "Issues") about
such automatic markup:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=18024
Perhaps there's an open issue dealing with implementing the MS-Word
method. Look it up.
There were long discussions about it in the OpenOffice.org-Hebrew
mailing list. You're invited to read them up in the archives:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.hebrew/490
On a personal note, I'm a supporter of MS-Word's method of implicitly
detecting the direction from the keyboard language.
I suppose that adding RLE/LRE/PDF chars (or perhaps LRM/RLM will
suffice) to the text in the OO XML (or even the input HTML) must work.
It just seems ugly for an XML format. Any advice?
I see nothing terribly wrong about using RLE/LRE/PDF in an XML-based
format.The XML standard declared they're playing the Unicode game, and
part of the Unicode deal is context-dependent characters like RLE/LRE/PDF.
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