Re: [libreoffice-website] Fixing style for rtl languages in TDF wiki

On 28.1.2021 23.48, Hossein Ir wrote:
> It's been a while since languages with right-to-left script like
> Persian and Arabic faced a problem in TDF wiki, in which table of
> contents (TOC) was not shown correctly. TOC was left aligned, which
> was wrong, and the padding was also wrong.
> I have tested different solutions, and at last, using the class
> "mw-content-rtl", everything is now fine.
> So, one should use {{fa}} and {{fa-end}} templates at the beginning
> and the end of Persian article, and for Arabic, one should use {{ar}}
> and {{ar-end}} which are essentially the same templates. This can be
> also used for other RTL languages.
> If some parts need to be written from left-to-right, one should put
> them in "mw-content-ltr" styled div tags.

Note that after migrating all of the old-style translations into 
Translate extension system, this problem will be completely gone and 
there will be no need to use such templates. See 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Directionality_support#Examples

One example of a working RTL ToC: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Translating_LibreOffice/ar

The migration work is tedious, especially for pages with complicated 
content (tables, code snippets). Help is very much appreciated: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF_Wiki/Multilingual#Migrating_old_translated_content_to_the_current_system

There are still over 300 pages with OrigLang template, but some of them 
are obsolete or historical, so the amount of relevant pages is 
considerably lower. Over the years, in addition to page migration, I 
have done cleaning work in the group of pages using OrigLang/Lang 
templates. Just moments ago I cleaned up some pages to shrink the size 
of the list.

Ilmari

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