[Framers] Publishing RTL languages (Hebrew, Arabic)

[Wim iDTP]

Hi, reposting this, did not get any responses so far.

Is anyone publishing their DITA projects to Hebrew or Arabic using DITA-FM or DITA-fmx?

I run into some issues.

1. alignment of images is not (always) correct
2. pagination in the FM book doesn't work as expected (right-left doesn't correspond to even/odd pages when a chapter starts with an even page number).

I guess these problems are related to the issue that in FrameMaker it's not possible to 'import' direction (rtl or ltr) using the import formats menu. Therefore, the documents should be generated from the DITA XML using a rtl-formatted template. And apparently it then just copies the alignment attribute of images as they are in the XML in stead of adapting those to the ltr setting.

Plesae contact me off-list if you want to share your befindings or solutions.

Thanks!


Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
 
Wim Hooghwinkel


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> Op 16 mrt. 2022, om 12:15 heeft Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp <wim at idtp.eu> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> is anyone publishing their DITA projects to Hebrew or Arabic using DITA-fmx?
> 
> I run into some issues.
> 
> 1. alignment of images is not (always) correct
> 2. pagination in the FM book doesn't work as expected (right-left doesn't correspond to even/odd pages when a chapter starts with an even page number).
> 
> I noticed that FrameMaker also has some issues. For example: it's not possible to 'import' direction (rtl or ltr) using the import formats menu.
> 
> Plesae contact me off-list if you want to share your befindings or solutions.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
> 
> Wim Hooghwinkel
> 
> 
> 
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