[xep-support] Does XEP support right-to-left text?

[Mete Kural]

Dear Mr. Grigoriev,

Thank you for your response.

What is your roughest estimate of when the
right-to-left functionality would be implemented in
XEP? Do you think it would be implemented in the next
three months?

Thanks,
Mete Kural


--- Nikolai Grigoriev <grig at renderx.com> wrote:
> Dear Mete Kural,
> 
> > Does XEP output right-to-left languages such as
> Arabic
> > or Farsi (Persian) in PDF? I noticed that it says
> in
> > the specs that "writing-mode" attribute is not
> > implemented. Is there another way to print
> > right-to-left text in XEP?
> 
> The current version of XEP supports only Western
> writing mode -
> left-to-right, top-to-bottom. I am not aware of any
> method to achieve
> right-to-left writing in XEP (unless you transpose
> characters on each
> string individually - but this is really hard to
> achieve).
> 
> The next version of XEP will have support for
> right-to-left writing 
> mode and bidirectionality. Please follow the
> announcements.
> 
> Best regards,
> Nikolai Grigoriev
> RenderX
> 
> 
> 
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