Setting bidirectional text preferences for the EGL form editor

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:

  1. From the menu bar, click Window > Preferences. The Preferences window opens.
  2. In the left pane of the Preferences window, expand EGL > EGL Form Editor and click EGL bidi preferences.
  3. 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.

Related concepts
EGL form editor overview
Editing form groups with the EGL form editor
Form filters in the EGL form editor

Related tasks
Setting preferences for the EGL form editor palette entries

Related reference
Bidirectional language text

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