[jsword-devel] Rendering of Hebrew

[DM Smith]

While setting dir in an html doc should work. No where in java's 
handling of html does it use the DIR attribute (it does have a constant 
for it and it does parse it correctly. It just is not used anywhere)

Java supports the notion of a components orientation. When applied at 
the top level of an application it changes various layout managers 
ordering of elements to the requested orientation. JDK 1.4 only supports 
LEFT_TO_RIGHT and RIGHT_TO_LEFT (horizontal orientations), but the java 
doc discusses vertical orientations that it does not support.

Anyway, calling 
applyComponentOrientation(ComponentOrientation.RIGHT_TO_LEFT)
or
setComponentOrientation(ComponentOrientation.RIGHT_TO_LEFT)
does render the html elements in their correct order.


One can dynamically get the component orientation from the language
by turning the language into a locale. This is probably the better way 
to go.

So the next trick is to associate a language with each Bible (this is in 
the conf, but I need to check that it is the proper abbreviation 
according to ISO standard that Locale.getLocal(...) uses) and to have 
the JTextPane get it from the bible.

There is a problem in the displaying of tables in html. The column 
ordering is not reversed and the text is left justified, rather than 
right justified. So I may need to pass the ordering into the stylesheet 
and do some manipulation there.

DM Smith wrote:

> I am working on fixing the BHS text ordering bug listed in bugs.txt.
> 
> Currently Hebrew bibles order the characters in a verse from right to 
> left which is correct. The verses are ordered from left to right with 
> the verse number on the left of the verse, both of which are wrong.
> 
> According to HTML 4.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html) 
> there is an inheritable block level attribute dir="rtl|ltr" which 
> controls this. I have tested this at by adding it to the html element.
> When I view it in an external browser the verses do display in the 
> correct order. However, the JTextArea displays them without regard to 
> the element's value.
> 
> I will be doing some more looking to see what Java can do.
> 
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