Bidirectional texts
When you need to type some text in the direction opposite to the direction of the target language, you can use text direction marks.
Select the relevant segment in XTM Workbench, go to the More menu
> Insert inline or special character > Text direction marks.Select the required bidirectional mark.
The mark is entered as a red inline tag.
Bidirectional marks available in XTM:
Mark | Full mark name | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
LRM | Left-to-Right Mark | Invisible formatting characters are used to set control over the direction of the text |
RLM | Right-to-Left Mark | |
LRE | Left-to-Right Embedding | A fragment of text is to be treated as embedded, e.g. an English phrase in an Arabic sentence could be marked as embedded left-to-right. |
RLE | Right-to-Left Embedding | |
Pop Directional Format | The scope of the previous embedding (LRE, RLE) is over | |
LRI | Left-to-Right Isolate | A fragment of text is isolated from the other part of the sentence |
RLI | Right-to-Left Isolate | |
PDI | Pop Directional Isolate | The scope of the previous isolate (LRI, RLI) is over |