On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Tal Galili 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
I'm assuming this should be compared to the second of your three
examples.
The aleph ( ש ) is on the left end of both titles.
I did notice in the process of deleting some inserted Hebrew letters
at the command line of the MacGUI that at one point the r-prompt (">")
got swapped to the right end of the glyph sequence. It also appears
that the Mac supports different inserion modes. Further testing shows
that back-quoted Hebrew text will cause that right-positioning to occur:
(But when I paste the formula into my mail the reversal diappears;)
> יים` ~ `שלוש`
I also searched on "reverse hebrew" in RSiteSearch, finding your
questions from last year. The test you offered ran without difficulty
on a Mac (since the file at you website is still up).
There is mention of a BiDi (bidirectional) class in package Unicode.
And there is a help page for:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/RGtk2/html/pango-Bidirectional-Text.html
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.0 Patched (2011-11-13 r57650)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
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David.
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
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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
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