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<div><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">We are interested in developing content in Hebrew which is a Right-to-left (RTL) language.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">We have authored several test problems in order to see the extent of RTL support.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">To achieve correct directionality of the text within sentences we have used the <span> tags with the RTL attribute.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">However, this does not provide good support for RTL alignment of paragraphs.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">For example, in a radiobutton response, the radio buttons appear on the wrong side, see minimal example below.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">We haven’t found in the manuals any instructions for authoring content in RTL languages.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">We wonder if full RTL support is available for Lon-Capa content and interface (including menus, etc.).</span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">If such support is not available built-in, we would appreciate any information as regard to implementing such support.</span></span><br></p><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Minimal examples follow below.</span></span><br></div>
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">(Note: this message was sent to the developers' list but did not receive any response. So we try our luck here.)</span></span><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Thank you in advance.</span></span><br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Itay Furman & Yair Naveh</span></span><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Jerusalem College of Engineering, Israel</span></span><br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><problem><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <!-- Test full RTL support : demonstrate wrong placement of submission field. --><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <script type="loncapa/perl"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> $a=&random(1,10,1); $b=&random(1,10,1); $c=$a+$b;<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </script><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <startouttext /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <translated><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <span dir="rtl">חשבו: כמה זה $a + $b?</span><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </translated><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <endouttext /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <numericalresponse answer="$c"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <textline /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </numericalresponse><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"></problem><br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><problem><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <!-- Test full RTL support :<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> demonstrate wrong placement of radiobuttions, and wrong alignment of margins. --><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <span dir="rtl"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <startouttext /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> כמה זה 1+1?<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <endouttext /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <radiobuttonresponse max="10" randomize="yes"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <foilgroup><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <foil location="random" value="true" name="foil1"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <startouttext />2 (זוהי תשובה נכונה).<endouttext /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </foil><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <foil location="random" value="false" name="foil2"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <startouttext />4 (זוהי תשובה שקרית).<endouttext /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </foil><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <foil location="random" value="false" name="foil3"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <startouttext />5.5 (זוהי תשובה שקרית).<endouttext /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </foil><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </foilgroup><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </radiobuttonresponse><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><problem><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <!-- Test full RTL support : demonstrates correct mixture of RTL and LTR pieces. --><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <startouttext /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <span dir="rtl"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> לפני המשוואה <!-- This text precedes the equation (on the right). --><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <m>\(c = a + b \)</m><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> אחרי המשוואה. <!-- This text follows the equation (on the left). --><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <br /><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> לפני האנגלית, <!-- This text precedes the english text. --><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> english text between hebrew text,<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> אחרי האנגלית. <!-- This text follows the english text. --><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <endouttext /><br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Done minimal examples.<br></div>
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<div><p dir="RTL" style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><span dir="LTR"> </span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p></div>
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