Bidirectional Text Support in Author Mode

Oxygen XML Author offers support for languages that require right to left scripts. This means that authors editing documents in the Author mode can create and edit XML content in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and others. To achieve this, Oxygen XML Author implements the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm, as specified by the Unicode consortium. The text arrangement is similar to what you get in a modern HTML browser. The final text layout is rendered according to the directional CSS properties matching the XML elements and the Unicode directional formatting codes.

By default, when navigating bidirectional text with the arrow keys in Author mode, pressing the right arrow key moves the cursor in the writing direction and the left arrow moves it in the opposite direction. However, if the Arrow keys move the cursor in the writing direction option in the Cursor Navigation preferences page is disabled, pressing the right arrow will simply move the cursor to the right (and the left arrow moves it to the left), regardless of the text direction.

If bidirectional text (such as Arabic or Hebrew languages), certain Asian languages (such as Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Khmer) or other special characters (such as combining characters), are detected in a document, Oxygen XML Author displays a Special Characters Detected dialog box that prompts you to Enable or Disable support for these special characters.

To watch our video demonstration about the bidirectional text support in the Author mode, go to https://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/BIDI_Support.html.