[xep-support] lr-tb

[Dave Pawson]

On 03/10/2007, G. Ken Holman <gkholman at cranesoftwrights.com> wrote:

> >The alignment I can understand. The movement of the period I can't.
> >
> >Can anyone explain it please?
>
> The letters have a "direction and strength" in Unicode and this is
> respected by XSL-FO.
>
> The comma and spaces affected by the strength of the adjacent
> characters, the period is not.

Thanks, I hadn't realised it was a 'battle' - with the character level
bonding winning!


>
> If you wanted to reverse the letter sequence, you want to use
> bidi-override

Yes, seems to work nicely.

> I think you have a copy of my PDF book, Dave ... check out the detail
> I've put in pages 305-315.

No, I had xslt one? Not the FO one.


Thanks Ken.

regards
-- 
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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