Re: [libreoffice-users] Automatically inserting LTR/RTL marks

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:41 PM, shaulkr <shaulkr@gmail.com> wrote:
> With CTL mode enabled, typing in one direction and inserting a few words in a
> language in the other direction changes the direction as it should. The
> issue is that when starting the alternate language sentence with a neutral
> character (a non-letter character), that neutral character is still rendered
> in the old direction.
>
> For example, typing a sentence in a RTL language (e.g. Hebrew) and inserting
> a UNIX path (e.g. /usr/bin/soffice) will render the first / at the end of
> the path. Manually inserting a LTR marker before the path fixes this.
>
> Is there a way to automatically insert these markers when the user types a
> neutral character with the keyboard set to the alternate language?
>
> http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/7278/ltrmarkexample.png This  is what the
> difference looks like.

What you are describing is the expected behaviour. The neutral
character will take its directionality from the directional characters
surrounding it. If those two characters are of differing
directionality then the character assumes the directionality assigned
to the paragraph. For more information, see here:
http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html

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Dotan Cohen

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