Hi David

Many thanks for the clarifications.

Thanks

Maher

From: David R Newman <drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2025 4:12 PM
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk; Maher Abdellatif Ahmad Qahwash <qahwash@kfupm.edu.sa>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Right to Left Text

Hi Maher,

I think you may need a bespoke function for rendering abstracts that can detect if the text is in Arabic or a right-to-left language.  I think I would start with the lib/cfg.d/render_paras.pl and as part of how the <p> elements are created do a test to see if any characters are Arabic.  If it is, either set a class you can then use is CSS with the attribute - direction: rtl; or directly set this in a style attribute for the p element.  E.g.

my $p = $para ~= m/\p{Arabic}/ ? $session->make_element( "p", class=>"ep_field_para", style=>"direction: rtl;" ) : $session->make_element( "p", class=>"ep_field_para" );

If that does not work you may want to try the regex m/[\x{0600}\x{0601}...\x{06FF}]/ instead.  Also, if you are liable to have the occasional Arabic character in Latin text then you may need to make the regex match the first character of the paragraph rather than any character in the paragraph.

Once done, you will need to make sure that the abstract field has its render_single_value attribute set to either 'EPrints::Extras::render_paras' or 'render_paras'.  The former is a core function added in EPrints 3.4.5 that will call $c->{render_paras} if it exists whereas the latter should just directly call $c->{render_paras}.

Finally, you will need to regenerate affected abstract pages with bin/generate_abstracts. If you have a lot it may be best run bin/epadmin refresh_abstracts and reload the webserver and just get all abstract pages to be regenerated on the next request.

Regards

David Newman

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Hi

 

We have an abstract field which contains Arabic and English words which results in the order of the words to get mixed up.  However when copying the same abstract and pasting it in word the order is correct.  Do we need to add anything to this abstract field in the workflow XML to resolve this issue?

 

Thanks

Maher

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