From 8da7db51882c6400997978678df75a8407f181c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fr33domlover Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 06:00:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Suggest initial Right-To-Left page support implementation --- ...pecify_text_direction_for_RTL_support.mdwn | 46 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/allow_to_specify_text_direction_for_RTL_support.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/allow_to_specify_text_direction_for_RTL_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/allow_to_specify_text_direction_for_RTL_support.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..711c896bf --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/allow_to_specify_text_direction_for_RTL_support.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Currently ikiwiki does not support left-to-right languages like Hebrew and Arabic, +in the sense that page text is always aligned to the left. Unless you do some CSS +hacking which doesn't scale well when you have many RTL pages. + +In the future it would be nice to make the while wiki UI go right-to-left if the user +chooses, but right now what's really important to me as an RTL language user +is that the body text can go right-to-left. + +This can be done with CSS easily: + +[[!format css """ +body { + text-align: right; +} +"""]] + +Currently there are two ways to make specific pages be RTL: + +1. Include a local.css file with the above code as an attachment of each RTL page +2. Specify CSS with the [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directive + +The problem is that option 2 requires [[plugins/htmlscrubber]] to be off. + +My suggestion: Add a parameter to the meta directive, which allows adding +an *rtl.css* file in addition to the exisiting ones. This file can be both at the top-level +and per-page overriden, just like local.css. The page.tmpl file can then use the +meta field to conditionally use the rtl.css, both the wiki-global one and the +per-page one (just like it does with local.css, IIRC). + +And it won't require htmlscrubber off, just like local.css doesn't. + +In the future rtl.css can be extended to also RTLize the whole UI, e.g. including the +location of the "buttons" at the top, the page name, code blocks and so on. + +What do you think? I can try this and send a patch. It just requires an additional +meta field and a CSS file. + +For example, to make a page RTL include something like this inside it: + + \[[!meta dir="rtl"]] + +Please tell me what you think. + +--[[fr33domlover]] + +[[!tag wishlist]] -- 2.39.5