FOP - formatting of arabic print flips over

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Hey!

I'm working on the printout of one of my applications. The printout should be Arabic (RTL of course).

So I added this to my XSLT:

XML

<fo:block font-size="120%">
  <fo:inline><xsl:value-of select="Subject"/> :الموضوع</fo:inline>
</fo:block>

The layout is Right-To-Left as long as there are also western characters involved.
When I have a all Arabic sentence the layout flips over and is left-to-right.

So why is this? any proper solution to this?

Could adding whitespace characters help in any way?

Posted 27-Jun-12 2:54am

TorstenH.

Updated 27-Jun-12 3:44am

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Rajeev Jayaram 27-Jun-12 10:42am

Not sure if this link relates to your topic,
http://multilingualtypesetting.co.uk/blog/arabic-typesetting-indesign-wrongs/
But, has some insights on arabic formatting.

TorstenH. 28-Jun-12 0:55am

That descripes the problems with the Arabic layout quite well. It's not as easy as easy as it seems in the first moment.

Rajeev Jayaram 2-Jul-12 17:30pm

:-)

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