Bummer. I guess I could nest a table in the table-cell. Any reason that wouldn't work?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Jason Harrop <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Glenn >> >> Thanks very much for that. >> >> So the following should right align in the table cell? >> >> <table-cell xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";> >> >> <block-container writing-mode="rl-tb"> >> <block> >> <inline>المدينة</inline> >> </block> >> </block-container> >> <table-cell> >> >> But that didn't work in FOP 1.1 nor with >> http://ci.apache.org/projects/xmlgraphics/fop/snapshots/fop-20140319.jar > > > No. I guess I wasn't plain enough. You need to put writing mode on table to > affect the table cells. What you've done above doesn't change the start/end > edges of the cell, just the start/end edges of the content in the cell. The > cell still maps start to left and end to right. Note that you have to make > the choice on the table as a whole. > >> >> >> >> (Refer May 2011 thread "Complex Script, BIDI text supported?") >> >> cheers .. Jason >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Per XSL-FO 1.1 [1]: >> > >> > "Property writing-mode applies to: fo:page-sequence, >> > fo:simple-page-master, >> > fo:region-body, fo:region-before, fo:region-after, fo:region-start, >> > fo:region-end, fo:block-container, fo:inline-container, and fo:table." >> > >> > As you can, none of these is fo:block. You need to specify it on >> > fo:table or >> > something higher up the tree. Note that specifying a RTL WM on fo:table >> > causes columns to be numbered from right to left, i.e., the first column >> > will be right-most. >> > >> > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xsl11-20061205/#prapply >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Jason Harrop <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, What's the correct way to write align a block of arabic in an >> >> individual table-cell? >> >> >> >> I found that with writing-mode="rl-tb", it was also necessary to add >> >> text-align="end" >> >> >> >> <fo:table-cell > >> >> <fo:block text-align="end" writing-mode="rl-tb"> >> >> <inline font-family="Arial">المدينة</inline> >> >> </fo:block> >> >> </fo:table-cell> >> >> >> >> thanks .. Jason >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
