FYI, if you're looking for the technical term for this type of text it's bidi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text
Hadley On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > And I forgot to include the link to the image, here it is: > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5371432/right-to-left-text%20example%202.png > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks to an e-mail from David, I realized that non-Hebrew speakers will >> not be able to know how a proper right-to-left output should look like >> (sorry for not thinking about it myself...) >> >> Here is some example code of how the output should look like vs how it >> currently looks. >> This is shown only for the main parameter, but the same issue will come up >> when using ?title or ?text >> >> Two points to mention again: >> 1) This is not a huge problem for me personally, but I believe that in the >> long term, if such an issue can be fixed, it would have been nice. It will >> allow all of the right-to-left languages to use R for plotting in their own >> language (That included, for example, all of the Arabic world... >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left ). >> 2) I fear that this type of issue needs to be handled by someone familiar >> with the guts of the R graphics code. I am not even sure if I should post >> this here or on the R-devel mailing list. Your advise will be very welcome. >> >> >> Here is the example code: >> >> par(mfrow = c(1,2)) >> plot(1:10, main = "שלום (טקסט)", sub = "The order of text is not right to >> left") >> plot(1:10, main = "(שלום (טקסט", sub = "This is how the output should have >> looked like") >> >> # A more complex example: >> plot(1:10, main = "שלום (טקסט) מידע על Subject 1", sub = "The order of >> text is not right to left") >> plot(1:10, main = " Subject 1 שלום (טקסט) מידע על", sub = "This is how the >> output should have looked like") >> >> # An even more complex example: >> par(mfrow = c(1,1)) >> plot(1:10, main = "שלום (טקסט) מידע על Subject 1 וגם קצת מידע על subject >> 2", sub = "The order of text is not right to left") >> # I am not sure how to fix this actually... >> >> >> Happy new year, >> Tal >> >> >> ----------------Contact >> Details:------------------------------------------------------- >> Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 >> Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | >> www.r-statistics.com (English) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> The following line of code includes a right-to-left language text, yet >>> the R graphics engine displays it from left to right. One problem this >>> causes is when there are parenthesis in the test, here is a basic example? >>> >>> plot(1:10, main = "שלום (טקסט)") >>> >>> Is there a way to make sure the text is displayed from right to left? >>> >>> Many thanks for any suggestions, >>> Tal >>> >>> >>> ----------------Contact >>> Details:------------------------------------------------------- >>> Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 >>> Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | >>> www.r-statistics.com (English) >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
