[LON-CAPA-users] Full support for Right-To-Left languages?

[Itay]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, at 16:31, Kortemeyer, Gerd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am sorry to say that RTL-support in LON-CAPA is very limited. I had 
> build a prototype of a new system,
> 
> https://github.com/gerdkortemeyer/loncapa
> 
> which has full RTL-support for all output, homework, editors, etc. 
> Unfortunately, we do not have enough funding to develop that prototype 
> into a real system or even to integrate aspects into the production 
> system. If anybody wants to look what’s done in the prototype and 
> integrate that into the production system, that would be great. And yes, 
> funding would be nice …
> 

I am sorry, but at this point there is no funding.  But there might be other options, too.
This discussion, I guess, fits better the developers' list, or to private communication -- let me know which is preferred.

> BTW: something that might help for at least option-response is the 
> <drawoptionlist />-tag, which at least allows you to move around where 
> the dropdown-menu appears.

Thank you.
Itay

> 
> - Gerd.
> 
> > On Jun 5, 2018, at 9:35 AM, Itay <itayf at nospammail.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> >  
> > We are interested in developing content in Hebrew which is a Right-to-left (RTL) language.
> > We have authored several test problems in order to see the extent of RTL support.
> > To achieve correct directionality of the text within sentences we have used the <span> tags with the RTL attribute.
> > However, this does not provide good support for RTL alignment of paragraphs.
> > For example, in a radiobutton response, the radio buttons appear on the wrong side, see minimal example below.
> >  
> > We haven’t found in the manuals any instructions for authoring content in RTL languages.
> > We wonder if full RTL support is available for Lon-Capa content and interface (including menus, etc.).
> > If such support is not available built-in, we would appreciate any information as regard to implementing such support.
> > 
> > Minimal examples follow below.
> > (Note: this message was sent to the developers' list but did not receive any response.  So we try our luck here.)
> > Thank you in advance.
> > 
> > Itay Furman & Yair Naveh
> > Jerusalem College of Engineering, Israel
> > 
> > 
> > <problem>
> >   <!-- Test full RTL support : demonstrate wrong placement of submission field. -->
> >   <script type="loncapa/perl">
> >     $a=&random(1,10,1);  $b=&random(1,10,1);  $c=$a+$b;
> >   </script>
> >   <startouttext />
> >   <translated>
> >     <span dir="rtl">חשבו: כמה זה $a + $b?</span>
> >   </translated>
> >   <endouttext />
> >   <numericalresponse answer="$c">
> >     <textline />
> >   </numericalresponse>
> > </problem>
> > 
> > 
> > <problem>
> >   <!-- Test full RTL support :
> >        demonstrate wrong placement of radiobuttions, and wrong alignment of margins. -->
> >   <span dir="rtl">
> >     <startouttext />
> >     כמה זה 1+1?
> >     <endouttext />
> >     <radiobuttonresponse max="10" randomize="yes">
> >     <foilgroup>
> >       <foil location="random" value="true" name="foil1">
> >         <startouttext />2 (זוהי תשובה נכונה).<endouttext />
> >       </foil>
> >       <foil location="random" value="false" name="foil2">
> >         <startouttext />4 (זוהי תשובה שקרית).<endouttext />
> >       </foil>
> >       <foil location="random" value="false" name="foil3">
> >         <startouttext />5.5 (זוהי תשובה שקרית).<endouttext />
> >       </foil>
> >     </foilgroup>
> >     </radiobuttonresponse>
> >   </span>
> > </problem>
> > 
> > 
> > <problem>
> >   <!-- Test full RTL support : demonstrates correct mixture of RTL and LTR pieces. -->
> >   <startouttext />
> >   <span dir="rtl">
> >     לפני המשוואה  <!-- This text precedes the equation (on the right). -->
> >     <m>\(c = a + b \)</m>
> >     אחרי המשוואה. <!-- This text follows the equation (on the left). -->
> >     <br />
> >     לפני האנגלית, <!-- This text precedes the english text. -->
> >     english text between hebrew text,
> >     אחרי האנגלית. <!-- This text follows the english text. -->
> >   </span>
> >   <endouttext />
> > </problem>
> > 
> > 
> > Done minimal examples.
> > 
> > 
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > 
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