Re: Writing Hebrew with docbook

2005-02-21 Thread Hillel
Haggai Eran wrote: It would be wonderful if they add something like that to DocBook standard. For now you can use a .css file with "direction: rtl" set in it for your documents. As I found out, the dir attribute was added to Docbook DTD as from version 4.3. It appears that the docbook xsl's do

Re: Writing Hebrew with docbook

2005-02-21 Thread Haggai Eran
It would be wonderful if they add something like that to DocBook standard. For now you can use a .css file with "direction: rtl" set in it for your documents. Haggai On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:01:59 +0200, Hillel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haggai Eran wrote: > > >There is currently no tags in DocB

Re: Writing Hebrew with docbook

2005-02-20 Thread Hillel
Haggai Eran wrote: There is currently no tags in DocBook to support bidi explicitly (as in HTML). For example, you can easily convert to HTML, and rely on the bidi support of the browser Thanks for the help. My problem is with the missing dir="rtl" in Docbook/XML to set the paragraph direction and

Re: Writing Hebrew with docbook

2005-02-20 Thread Haggai Eran
I tried using docbook with Hebrew a while ago and I found out a couple of things: There is currently no tags in DocBook to support bidi explicitly (as in HTML). The tools for converting DocBook to other formats vary in their support for bidi. For example, you can easily convert to HTML, and rely on

Writing Hebrew with Docbook

2005-02-18 Thread Hillel
Hi all, I am trying to write Hebrew manual's using Docbook/XML (I am using the standard docbook.xsl for rendering). I used the lang="he" tag on the root element, but the text is still using a left to right direction. I googled on this a little and didn't find any clear documentation on docbook

Writing Hebrew with docbook

2005-02-18 Thread Hillel
Hi all, I am trying to write Hebrew manual's using Docbook/XML (I am using the standard docbook.xsl for rendering). I used the lang="he" tag on the root element, but the text is still using a left to right direction. I googled on this a little and didn't find any clear documentation on docbook t