Right to left paragraph direction support (rtl dir)

[alimo2]

Hi;

I'm using the last version 3, but it doesn't support right to left language such as Farsi, Arabic in paragraph style & make words cluttered & not in right order!
is there any way fix this?

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[alimo2]

any solution? :(

[Progi1984]

I believe no implementation has been done in PHPWord. I change the label Question to Feature Request.

[alimo2]

Thank you, but if anyone know any temp solution plz help me.

[Progi1984]

@alimo2 Have you some DOCX / ODT files for sample and reference for reverse engineering ? Thx

[alimo2]

docx file generated by PHPWord ?

[Progi1984]

@alimo2 No DOCX with Word ou LibreOffice, but with RTL paragraph.

[alimo2]

http:https://uplood.ir/1mdX

[alimo2]

i check the parsed xml & i think the problem is extra tags that word add to file!

[Progi1984]

Link : http:https://openxmldeveloper.org/blog/b/openxmldeveloper/archive/2007/04/09/rtl-text.aspx

[alimo2]

so what shall i do with PHPWord classes? i know about word rtl xml tags

[Progi1984]

@alimo2 I just commited (to the develop branch) an implementation to RTL in textrun. Please could you test and give us your feedback ?

[alimo2]

yes for sure, tnx

[Progi1984]

@alimo2 So is it working for you ?

[alimo2]

yes that is working! tnx a lot. When you commit it in master code?

[Progi1984]

In the next release :)
Thanks for your tests.

[khosro]

@Progi1984 thanks for adding support for right to left.
I have downloaded development branch and test "Sample_36_RTL.php".
First of all ,i have encounter following exception :

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PhpOffice\PhpWord\Exception\Exception' with message '"HTML" is not a valid writer.' in D:\Projects\PHPWord\PHPWord-develop\src\PhpWord\IOFactory.php on line 32

Then i have removed html writer from "Sample_Header.php" file.
The sample only sets Text Align to right but does not set "Text direction" to "Right To Left"!!!
It must also set text direction to "Right To Left".

[Progi1984]

@khosro Actually, that sets the direction for the textrun and not for the paragraph. It may be your problem. For the fatal error, could you open a new issue, please ?

[khosro]

@Progi1984 ,what actually " array('rtl' => true)" does? I think it must set text direction to Right to Left.

[Progi1984]

@khosro it writes a "w:rtl" tag in the text run (Source : 8d9e85b#diff-3c77dc4e950fb7b3faece7ad6fe4bc19R134)

[khosro]

@Progi1984 .OK.
I am newbie in PHP. Maybe this is silly question:
Is there any way to set text direction of paragraph ?

[Progi1984]

@khosro See this link about RTL Text in OpenXML files. Normally, that could help you.

[khosro]

Thanks.
I think we can not set Right to Left text direction to a paragraph in PHPWord.Am i right?

[Progi1984]

@khosro At the moment, no. May be with a PR ? An idea, @ivanlanin ?

[khosro]

@Progi1984 I found a problem
In sample "Sample_36_RTL" if i change string to "سلام این یک پاراگراف Hello راست به چپ است" the generated word render "سلام این یک پاراگراف olleH راست به چپ است"!!!
I mean english word render in reverse.

[Progi1984]

@khosro Are you sure it's an error ? For me, Word reverses text which is in ASCII. Sorry, I haven't got Word for testing, only Libreoffice & Word Online.

[khosro]

@Progi1984 Yes.I am sure.I tested it with Microsoft word.

[Progi1984]

@khosro Could you send me a DOCX with the good render for this string, plz ? I have to analyze the file.

[khosro]

@Progi1984
Excuse me.I was out of office.In our office we have installed MS Word 2013,when i embed english word in Arabic or Farsi paragraph it renders english word in reverse.
But also i test it with MS Word 2010.In MS Word 2010 it is OK.
I uploaded DOCX with the good render and also changed RTL sample here https://www.dropbox.com/s/pqxyha621btgyn1/Sample_36_RTL.zip

[khosro]

@Progi1984
The uploaded DOCX file in previous comment generated from "Sample_36_RTL".
There some problems with that file :

1. As i said this ,english word renders in reverse in MS Word 2013.
   2.In either MS 2010 or MS 2013 if i type english word among "Right to left " language paragraph ,the order of words changed in sentence ,then the meaning of sentence changes.
   In order to solve this problem(mixing english word and "Right to left " language words such as Arabic and Farsi) in MS Word we change the text direction to "Right to Left"(The "Sample_36_RTL" does not do that).

I uploaded the new correct version and also change text direction in it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qfe5bjcenxf0yki/Sample_36_RTL-New.zip

[khosro]

@Progi1984
Excuse me.I am really confused.The uploaded file in previouse comment was generated by PHPWord and then in Word 2010 i set direction to Farsi paragraph.I thought it also does work in MS Word 2013,but it does not .So that i again created another file by PHPWord and then open it by MS Word 2013 and then set direction and uploaded here.

[amirush2001]

In addition to the ltr, the <bidi/> (bidirectional) element should be added.
Writer/Word2007/Style/Font.php (in the write function, after the rtl code):

$xmlWriter->startElement('w:bidi');
$xmlWriter->endElement();

Writer/Word2007/Element/Text.php (in the write function, after $this->startElementP();):

$xmlWriter->startElement('w:pPr');
$xmlWriter->startElement('w:bidi');
$xmlWriter->endElement();
$xmlWriter->endElement();

[amirush2001]

And also the xml:space should have <w:rtl> element(Writer/Word2007/Element/Text.php):

$xmlWriter->startElement('w:r');
$xmlWriter->startElement('w:rPr'); //Added
$xmlWriter->startElement('w:rtl'); //Added
$xmlWriter->endElement(); //Added
$xmlWriter->endElement(); //Added
$xmlWriter->startElement('w:t');        
$xmlWriter->writeAttribute('xml:space', 'preserve');
$xmlWriter->writeRaw($this->getText($element->getText()));
$xmlWriter->endElement();
$xmlWriter->endElement(); // w:r

[salehi-nawroz]

@amirush2001,
thanks for helping us , i have the same problem as khosro,but in my phpword library i could not found the following link as u mentioned in your comment
Writer/Word2007/Style/Font.php
Writer/Word2007/Element/Text.php
can u help me plz?

[amirush2001]

https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/blob/master/src/PhpWord/Writer/Word2007/Style/Font.php
https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/blob/master/src/PhpWord/Writer/Word2007/Element/Text.php

[falahatiali]

is there any way to set Table of content as right to left?

[falahatiali]

@alimo2
Could you insert an RTL table of content? I can't find additional setting for TOC.

[alimo2]

I still have problem with latest version of phpword (0.17.0). Arabic letters in template become separated & also with wrong direction.
What shal i do ?

@Progi1984

[alimo2]

correct is:
رضا مرادی

[alimo2]

is there any way to set Table of content as right to left?

i've never use table of content. sry.