[reportlab-users] Right-to-Left languages
   
    Andy Robinson
     
    reportlab-users@reportlab.com
       
    Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:05:38 +0100
    
    
  
> It's probably crazy but could we "mirror image the fonts" then
> lay them out left to right and then mirror image the whole paragraph
> just using transforms?  What am I missing?
Sentences which mix left-to-right and right-to-left. Arabic or Hebrew
paragraphs containing Engish technical terms for example, and either
could break over a link.  
It's far worse in a GUI.  I read some essay once on the complexity
of text selection in these situations....
- Andy