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Hi Michael, It is late on a Friday here, so I ll keep my post very brief (an excuse for not exactly brief but rather unstructured :-) Over the past couple of months I have been tackling quiet a few issues similar to what you describe. The visual rendering "(Brand name (Former name" is often the correct behaviour, but I learned from Arabic proof readers it is not pleasing anyway The brackets around English text are one infamous known issue another one I had issues with is registered trademarks appearing randomly before or after an english word. And keeping 1-25 as page number in the footer for chapter-page numbering instead of 25-1 has been hard too The algorythms for switching rtl and ltr are complex and although there is very good support in some FO processors, behaviour is not always predictable We learned there is an advantage in creating inner context to tune the algorythms our way our documents are DITA, so I pulled the DITA files out of the CMS and added a <term> element context around english text in arabic but ONLY when there are potential issues (cases are rather isolated so if there are no brackets eg. just leave the english text as it is in order to not make mistakes) We had cases like this "A arrow B" no arabic characters in there in arabic the result needed to show "B flipped arrow A" That will not happen correctly if you create your bidi override to large (your suggested regex would break this example) from learning the hard way: advice no 1: be conservative in creating bidi overrides because most often the FO processor does the right thing I am revising my regular expressions over the next week or two because of toolset version changes
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