Re: BIDI problem in XSL-FO

On 03/05/2016 13:21, Tony Graham tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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<fo:block>Brand name (Former name)</fo:block>

This is visually rendered like this:

(Brand name (Former name

My first idea is to add <fo:bidi-override direction="ltr"> to each
block or maybe only each text node that consist of solely non-Arabic
characters. I guess this could be done using a regular expression like

That will 'un-mirror' the ')' but not change its position. See FO below.

Sorry, yes, 'direction' should apply only to fo:bidi-override. I'll have
to look into what it was doing to fo:block. This will work:

Tony Graham.
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