The transcription of the voice onto stone, wood, paper, or, nowadays, digital media, since prehistoric times is proof of the primary human necessity to communicate.Įvery society on the planet has developed some system of writing. In this metaphor, Voltaire (1694-1778), a French writer and philosopher, expresses well the need humans have to express their thoughts by translating them into words.
Photograph by ghalam_DAR, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic licenseĮnjoy this piece? I invite you to follow me at /dudleystorey to learn more."Writing is painting through speech." (translation by Mel Belin) שרי השביעייה דנו בתשובת ישראל לארה"ב įor more information and examples, I encourage you to read Ahmad Alfy’s excellent piece on converting sites to right-to-left languages. We cannot use the dir attribute there instead, we use HTML entities, in the form of Unicode control characters: The one remaining issue is that text in the tag will ignore directionality, and be left-to-right no matter what we have stated. If it was only a word or a short phrase inside a sentence that you wanted to effect, you would use around the relevant text, with the same values for lang and dir using in the as used for the paragraph above. על רקע חילוקי הדעות בין ירושליה ישראלית Step Two: Deal With ExceptionsĪssuming that the majority of the document was in Hebrew and you wanted to write an English paragraph somewhere in the body, you would declare that paragraph as an exception:
I would recommend that you follow general recommendations for creating body copy: writing text in a correctly configured word processor or other tool, and copying and pasting the text into appropriate markup in your document. So long as you are using UTF-8 encoding on your pages, as we discussed in setting up your HTML document, everything else should follow naturally. To set the opposite direction, we set dir to “ rtl” (right to left): Īt the same time we should declare the language being used on the page (assuming that the body text is primarily in one language). dir by default is set to “ltr” (left to right), and does not need to be explicitly declared. The base direction of text in a web page is determined by the dir attribute in the tag. Getting the text itself onto the page is not a particular issue, but forming it to run in the right direction can be. However Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu and several other languages are written in the opposite direction, i.e. By default, text runs from left-to-right in web pages, as all Indo-European languages are written in this direction.
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