Set Text Direction for Forms

In forms with XML as input format and TEXT as output format you are able to define the default Text direction for your rearranges.

This setting will have an effect on the way the Form Editor behaves under different circumstances. In-line editing is not supported for fixed text objects if text direction is set to ‘right-to-left’ in the output settings of the rearrange.

The default position on screen for a new rearrange will vary based on this setting, as follows.

Left-to-right:

Upper left corner of output view.

Right-to-left:

Upper right corner of the output view.

The value of the text direction setting in the Display option will also have an effect on three default values in the settings of a rearrange:

Punctuation

Punctuation marks at the end of a text string are rendered as if they are placed at the beginning when the writing direction is right-to-left. Punctuation characters are:

• comma ,

• full stop .

• exclamation mark !

• question mark ?

• semi-colon ;

• colon :

• apostrophe '

• quotation marks “ ”

• hyphen -

• brackets ( ) or [ ]

• slash /

• backslash \

Example of punctuation handling in left-to right mode:

"Lasernet has support for left-to-right text writing:"

Example of punctuation handling in right-to-left text mode:

":Lasernet has support for right-to-left text writing"