On 19 March 2010 22:25, Philiрp Rеichmuth <phil.ipp.reich.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to force the onscreen rendering for the text contained in a > given character or paragraphy style to be right-to-left? Ideally some kind > of command within the InsetLayout or Style groups in the layout options? > > Background: I use XeTeX to typeset a document in several scripts, including > Arabic. The Arabic-script sections are not in the Arabic language, but in a > variety of other languages. Because my document is left-to-right, they get > displayed on screen in LTR order, which is wrong. I can get them to display > in RTL by setting their language to Arabic (ArabTeX or Arabi). In both > cases, LyX displays them right-to-left, but these options are both > ncompatible with XeTeX because they make other assumptions on how to render > the text in the final output. > > Ideally, I wouldn't have to mark them as in a different language at all - > there are no benefits other than the writing direction. I use logical > markup and custom styles anyway for these passages, so I'd just like to > mark all instances of a given style to display RTL in LyX. Is that > possible, or is there some workaround? > > Philipp > >
Have you tried the Unicode RLM character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/200f/index.htm -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail.
