Re: Help with Arabic computers

Did you actually try it? If I do, and try to insert text, it goes all
over the place (especially when inserting spaces)

  Marc

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 17:09 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> Actually I think the bug is in the template files for
> arabic and other RTL languages. We explicitly set the text aligned to
> be left-aligned. The formatter needs to honour this request even for
> RTL languages because one can easily think of use cases where a RTL
> user wants to put text on the left side the document, like English
> speakers have the need for right-aligned text.
>
> Here is the template for normal.awt-ar (Arabic locale)
>
>
> ------------------------------
> <styles>
> <s type="P" name="Normal" basedon="" followedby="Current Settings"
> props="font-family:Times New Roman; margin-top:0pt;
> font-variant:normal; margin-left:0pt; text-indent:0in; widows:2;
> font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none;
> color:000000; line-height:1.0; text-align:left; margin-bottom:0pt;
> text-position:normal; margin-right:0pt; bgcolor:transparent;
> font-size:12pt; font-stretch:normal"/>
> </styles>
> <pagesize pagetype="A4" orientation="portrait" width="210.000000"
> height="297.000000" units="mm" page-scale="1.000000"/>
> <section props="page-margin-right:1.0000in;
> page-margin-footer:0.5000in; page-margin-header:0.5000in;
> page-margin-left:1.0000in; page-margin-top:1.0000in;
> page-margin-bottom:1.0000in">
> <p style="Normal"></p>
> </section>
> </abiword>
> ------------------------------------
>
> See "text-align:left;" ? We explicitly ask for left-alignment even
> though we set the dominant direction to RTL.
>
> The solution is straight forward change the templates to set the
> property: "text-align:right;" for normal style. Since almost all our
> styles are basedon normal, the styles will inherit right-alignment as
> default.
>
> Tomas, do you have an opinion?
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:18 PM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:43 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> >>
> >> You also need to set the paragraph property of the template to be
> >> right aligned. That will put the caret on the right side the screen.
> >
> > Try it yourself using "LANG=ar_AE.utf8 abiword". Either I don't
> > understand how RtL languages work, or we broke its behavior (I bet on
> > the latter).
> >
> > Arabic speaking people, could you test the following for me:
> >
> > 1) start abiword on a "normal PC" using LANG=ar_AE.utf8 abiword
> > 2) right align the paragraph (Format -> Align -> Right)
> > 3) type some words, and see if it behaves normally (cursor movement,
> > letter placement, inserting a space)?
> >
> > @Martin: we never needed to manually right align afaict. Sure, I can
> > make it part of the Normal style for arabic, but that means it breaks
> > all down again as soon as you use anything other than Normal (ie. one of
> > the built-in styles). I'm fairly sure we broke this. It should
> > auto-right align imo, and I think we used to do that.
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Marc
> >
> >
Received on Wed Dec 17 12:10:50 2008