Re: How to set text-direction

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Cameron Horsburgh schreef:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:10:23PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > Cameron Horsburgh schreef:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to write the documentation for the newish feature whereby the 
> > > direction of text scripts can be changed. From the 2.8 NEWS:
> > >
> > > The order of words in \markup commands may now be reversed by setting the 
> > > text-direction property. This is useful for Right-to-Left languages like 
> > > Hebrew.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I can't figure out how to do it. Any clues?
> > see the regtest file for text-direction
> Nope--can't see it there. The onlything I can see in the regtest is 
> markup-bidi-pango.ly, which seems to cheat a little bit!
>
> I've grepped through CVS and the only likely things I can find are in 
> define-grob-properties.scm and define-markup-commands.scm. Unfortunately I'm 
> not able to glean from those how it should be done.

Try this:

\markup {
  \override #(cons 'text-direction LEFT) \wordwrap { hello this will be 
reversed } }

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