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2. Switch to the Columns property sheet.
3. Under Text direction, activate the option Right to left to change the direction
to right-to-left.
To set the direction to left-to-right, deactivate the option.
The direction of the multi-column text section changes accordingly.
Thus, when you change the direction of a section to right-to-left, the column on the
very right becomes the first column (instead of the column at the very left).
Note: Of course you can still change the writing direction of the text in each
paragraph individually (as described in the section “Changing the text direction of
paragraphs” above).
For general information on working with multi-column text, see the chapter
“Multi-column page layouts” (page 141).
Changing the font of Arabic text
When the Extended support for Arabic text option is enabled, the dialog box for
the Format > Character command presents lists for typeface, font size, style and
language under not only a single category, but under three:
For Latin scripts (e.g. English)
For East Asian scripts (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
For complex scripts (e.g. Arabic)
Thus, you can specify the settings for each kind of script separately.
For example, if you specify “Arial” as the typeface for Latin characters and “Simplified
Arabic” as the typeface for characters in complex scripts (like Arabic), all
Latin characters that you type will appear in Arial, and all Arabic characters you
type will appear in the font “Simplified Arabic”.
Note: TextMaker recognizes automatically whether given characters are part of the
Latin, Asian, or complex scripts.
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