The EGL form editor supports languages
such as Arabic and Hebrew in which the text is written right to left but numbers
and Latin alphabetic strings within the text are presented left to right.
For more information, see Bidirectional language text. To change the
preferences for the form editor's support of bidirectional languages, follow
these steps:
- From the menu bar, click Window > Preferences.
The Preferences window opens.
- In the left pane of the Preferences window, expand EGL > EGL
Form Editor and click EGL bidi preferences.
- In the right pane of the Preferences window, select the preferences for
the form editor's support of bidirectional languages:
- To enable the use of bidirectional language options in the form editor,
select the Bi-directional options enabled check
box. Once this check box is selected, all of the other options are available.
- To display the bi-directional text fields in the way they will appear,
with the correct ordering of letters and numbers (visual ordering), instead
of in the way the characters are typed (logical ordering), select the Enable
visual ordering check box.
- To place a button on the form editor that allows you to change the bidirectional
settings for a formGroup, select the Enable bi-directional settings
button check box. With this button, you can change the bidirectional
settings for an individual formGroup to be different from the settings in
the Preferences window.
- To use right to left map coordinates for the form editor, select the Default
RTL orientation check box. When a form group is set to use right
to left map coordinates, the top right corner is defined as the location (1,1).
With a left to right orientation, the location (1,1) is the top left corner.
- To reverse directional punctuation characters like < and (, select
the Enable symmetric swapping check box.
- To switch numerals from Hindi to Arabic, select the Enable
numeric swapping check box.
Note: You can restore the EGL form editor preferences window to its default
settings by clicking Restore Defaults.