Hebrew Characters

Karellen · Today, 07:01 AM

Hi,

This one has me stumped.

A page in an ebook I am reading has a few Hebrew characters. I have a font embedded in the epub to display them (FreeSerif.otf). The epub is v3

In Calibre viewer and in the Editor previewer, both display the paragraphs correctly.

On my Libra2, the paragraphs are messed up. Part of the paragraph is forced ltr and the other part is rtl. See images.

I've added <p dir="ltr"> to each affected paragraph, but it does not fix it.

In the opf, I've added <spine toc="toc" page-progression-direction="ltr">. This does not fix it either.

What is the trick to getting this to work correctly? I want it to read ltr. Normal English reading, with a couple of Hebrew characters in the paragraph.

Thanks

JSWolf · Today, 07:04 AM

Given that you are reading it in ePub, you cannot use directional commands for the text. It doesn't work.

Can you show your code for that page including the CSS?

KevinH · Today, 08:23 AM

In the old days you used bdi (Bi-Directional Isolation) tags surrounding just the Hebrew char. Or try a span with dir="rtl" around just the Hebrew char, or maybe both.

The presence of the Hebrew char without those is confusing the reader to change the whole paragraph to rtl.

Karellen · Today, 05:25 PM

Thanks @KevinH. I just cannot get it to work on the Libra2. I've used the <bdi> tags, I've tried <span dir="rtl">, nested the rtl and ltr. Any combination I could think of, I tried. None of it worked. I guess the libra2 software needs some tweaking.

I've replaced the characters with svg, so now working ok. Yep a cowards way out, but I've spent a good hour and a half fiddling with this.

@jswolf thanks, but using svg files for the characters instead.

Today, 07:01 AM	#1
Karellen Wizard Posts: 1,853 Karma: 9600930 Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2	Hebrew Characters Hi, This one has me stumped. A page in an ebook I am reading has a few Hebrew characters. I have a font embedded in the epub to display them (FreeSerif.otf). The epub is v3 In Calibre viewer and in the Editor previewer, both display the paragraphs correctly. On my Libra2, the paragraphs are messed up. Part of the paragraph is forced ltr and the other part is rtl. See images. I've added <p dir="ltr"> to each affected paragraph, but it does not fix it. In the opf, I've added <spine toc="toc" page-progression-direction="ltr">. This does not fix it either. What is the trick to getting this to work correctly? I want it to read ltr. Normal English reading, with a couple of Hebrew characters in the paragraph. Thanks Attached Thumbnails

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Today, 07:04 AM	#2
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 83,861 Karma: 153649587 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Given that you are reading it in ePub, you cannot use directional commands for the text. It doesn't work. Can you show your code for that page including the CSS?

Today, 08:23 AM	#3
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,732 Karma: 6774572 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	In the old days you used bdi (Bi-Directional Isolation) tags surrounding just the Hebrew char. Or try a span with dir="rtl" around just the Hebrew char, or maybe both. The presence of the Hebrew char without those is confusing the reader to change the whole paragraph to rtl.

Today, 05:25 PM	#4
Karellen Wizard Posts: 1,853 Karma: 9600930 Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2	Thanks @KevinH. I just cannot get it to work on the Libra2. I've used the <bdi> tags, I've tried <span dir="rtl">, nested the rtl and ltr. Any combination I could think of, I tried. None of it worked. I guess the libra2 software needs some tweaking. I've replaced the characters with svg, so now working ok. Yep a cowards way out, but I've spent a good hour and a half fiddling with this. @jswolf thanks, but using svg files for the characters instead.

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