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Re: [O] RLT (hebrew) tables and org-odt-export-to-odt problems
From: |
Uwe Brauer |
Subject: |
Re: [O] RLT (hebrew) tables and org-odt-export-to-odt problems |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Nov 2013 23:54:19 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) XEmacs/21.5-b32 (linux) |
>> "Jambunathan" == Jambunathan K <Jambunathan> writes:
Hi Jambunathan,
> Uwe
> I am venturing in to the wild here and it will take multiple iterations
> for me to even get a "feel" for what needs to be happen. I am not even
> sure what is right or wrong here. Anyways...
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
thanks very much for all your efforts so far.
> Further to our exchange on the emacs-devel list,
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00134.html
> I see that the file you passed me has no bi-directional markers
> whatsoever. I think presence of markers would affect how libreoffice
> would layout the table.
> I suggest that you pass me an Org file, that has the right
> bidi-paragraph-direction (as a local variable) and has the right set of
> bidi markers.
I tried and that and it did not help I send the files anyway, I will
however use thunderbird to send the attachments in the next mails.
> (Furthermore, explicitly mark the org file as utf-8 coded. I am not
> sure what coding system the attachment is coded to. When I view the
> attachment in Gnus, I only see the latin characters.)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> As for getting the table cells laid right, try this out.
> 1. Export a hebrew.org file to hebrew.odt
> 2. Open the .odt file in LibreOffice.
F11-> Page Style->Default Page Style->Page->Text Direction->Set it to
> "Right to Left".
This does not really work, since it switches the direction of all rows
in the table, but not just of the first one as suggested Eli.
> I think that this would set the predominant direction of your
> document. I believe, it would correspond to bidi-paragraph-direction
> setting.
> 3. File->Save as->somefile.ott
> Now in your hebrew.org file, add this directive
> #+ODT_STYLES_FILE: "hebrew.ott"
> This will make the exported document an R2L document.
> 4. Export again. See what happens
I tried same result.
I send all files in question in my next email.
Uwe
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