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

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hello Itay,

>
> This discussion, I guess, fits better the developers' list, or to  
> private communication -- let me know which is preferred.
>

I have filed bug 6884 for implementation of full RTL support in the  
current LON-CAPA. See: bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6884

If you would like to post comments on that bug/enhancement request  
please send an e-mail to helpdesk at loncapa.org to request creation of  
an account in bugs.loncapa.org (the e-mail address from which you send  
your e-mail will be used as your username in LON-CAPA's bugzilla  
instance).

Thank you,

Stuart

Stuart Raeburn
Technical Director
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

Quoting Itay <itayf at nospammail.net>:

> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_gerdkortemeyer_loncapa&d=DwIGaQ&c=nE__W8dFE-shTxStwXtp0A&r=VsGo3jOm8tGLd6f-KlhT-g&m=q2fTtq-o_Pnoirx_kfzQGk7Pc94spwnIz7g6qIP8EN4&s=Bd0-3OX-ilgzse8VZbC2Vb51UQUjbCVLVtdJ_OW83bs&e=
>>
>> 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">????: ??? ?? $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 />
>> >     ??? ?? 1+1?
>> >     <endouttext />
>> >     <radiobuttonresponse max="10" randomize="yes">
>> >     <foilgroup>
>> >       <foil location="random" value="true" name="foil1">
>> >         <startouttext />2 (???? ????? ?????).<endouttext />
>> >       </foil>
>> >       <foil location="random" value="false" name="foil2">
>> >         <startouttext />4 (???? ????? ?????).<endouttext />
>> >       </foil>
>> >       <foil location="random" value="false" name="foil3">
>> >         <startouttext />5.5 (???? ????? ?????).<endouttext />
>> >       </foil>
>> >     </foilgroup>
>> >     </radiobuttonresponse>
>> >   </span>
>> > </problem>
>> >
>> >
>> > <problem>
>> >   <!-- Test full RTL support : demonstrates correct mixture of
RTL
>> and LTR pieces. -->
>> >   <startouttext />
>> >   <span dir="rtl">
>> >     ???? ???????  <!-- This text precedes the equation (on the
right). -->
>> >     <m>\(c = a + b \)</m>
>> >     ???? ???????. <!-- This text follows the equation (on the
left). -->
>> >     <br />
>> >     ???? ???????, <!-- This text precedes the english text. -->
>> >     english text between hebrew text,
>> >     ???? ???????. <!-- This text follows the english text. -->
>> >   </span>
>> >   <endouttext />
>> > </problem>
>> >
>> >
>> > Done minimal examples.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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