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• • August 14, 2012 at 11:32 pm #62904
    TimmR

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    Hi all,

    So, recently I started to work with RTL languages. In those
    documents you can often see names which are LTR, for
    example an international airport name.

    Both names and numbers get placed backwards by default.
    (with my settings) I'm working with ID CS5 ME and my current
    solution is to work with GREP inside paragraph styles and
    link LTR styles to correct the non-rtl and numbers.

    But is this the most easiest way to work with mixed RTL and
    LTR text?

    And are there maybe resources, books, tutorials about working
    with RTL texts?

    Many, many thanks in advance.

  • August 19, 2012 at 7:15 am #62925
    Chris Thompson

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    A few days late, hoping you've already sorted it out…

    Is there a setting for “character direction”? If so, it should be set to “default” rather than RTL or LTR. I'm using the ScribeDOOR plugin from the ME people, and if you have mixed Arabic and English words in the same para, everything is as it should be, so long as character direction isn't manually set to RTL or LTR. If I change that setting, one or other of the languages goes in the wrong direction.

    All that's assuming that the text that you're working with is correctly (naturally) typed in the first place… Try copying some mixed text from somewhere that's got reliable presentation, like the BBC Arabic site, and paste it in to check if it's your settings or the supplied text that needs to be changed.

    !kcuL dooG

  • August 22, 2012 at 2:33 am #62958
    TimmR

    Member

    @ThompsonText, Thank you VERY much!
    That tip actually helped me a lot! Saves me a lot of time.

    Sounds so logical, but for someone who's trying to figure it
    out all by himself without beeing able to read the language
    it could be a bit tricky.

    Cheers!

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