wooorm
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10 years ago To be honest, directionality only really color codes grammatical units, and if a unit is completely LTR or RTL, sets that value as the DOM node’s dir attribute. Thus, a bidirectional paragraph is not marked with any actual dir (although its sentences might).
You say the direction of the first sentence (the first child) should be applied to paragraph (the parent):
- Should this still apply if the paragraph starts with one Hebrew sentence, and follows with two in English (and what about 5 in English, or more)?
- What about an initial English sentence, followed by multiple in Hebrew?
- Do you know of any resources on this?
Regarding 1. and 2., if I add [dir="rtl"] to an ancestor (such as body or .directionality__output), the paragraph shows up as you recommended.
In fact, I’m not sure I as a plugin developer should choose a ratio to apply neutral, LTR, or RTL directionality. Maybe it’s best to let users find that out on their own: such as, when a RootNode is classified as "neutral", detect which direction is used more than the other and apply that to a DOM node?
rbakhshi
the demo (http://wooorm.github.io/retext-directionality/) tries to show how bidi text can be detected and handled by retext. The line with both Hebrew and English should be right to left as it starts with Hebrew.