Re: The rounded edges
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:21:35PM -0700, Anthony Fok wrote:
> > > I just noticed that on the Arabic translation, which is right-to-left,
> > > the rounded edges on the red navbar are pointing in the wrong
> > > direction, at least in *shrug* MSIE.
> >
> > Do you know how to fix it? Is there a way to force <html dir="LTR"> on the
> > the navbar table? Perhaps <span dir="LTR"> or something like that...
>
> Actually, I think I was the culprit here. Some months ago, I changed
> the following line in webwml/english/template/debian/basic.wml from:
>
> <HTML lang="$(CUR_ISO_LANG)">
> to
> <HTML lang="$(CUR_ISO_LANG)"[AR: dir="RTL":][HE: dir="RTL":]>
>
> So *everything* goes from right-to-left, just just the text, but the menu
> too. (The menu bar got switched from the left to the right hand side.)
> It wasn't a big problem back then, so I didn't worry about it. However, I
> see that there are more problems than I imagined. :-)
Indeed ;)
> I have just reversed the change, and that should fix the problem.
You should be able to make only the text go from right to left by placing
dir="RTL" in the appropriate parts of the pages, but that would require
changing $(TEMPLDIR)/basic.wml so I'd recommend not doing anything until
it's verified that the change would be final :)
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