Working with a FrameMaker book in Arabic
Hello,
I received a FrameMaker book that will be translated from English to Arabic. This is new for me. I am working with RTL languages in InDesign, but never in FrameMaker. My knowledge of FrameMaker is not great. Most of the projects I worked on required simple formatting, cleaning nothing too complicated.
I noticed that FM has support for RTL languages. I noticed that I have an option to set the direction of a paragraph from LTR to RTL. Does it have an option for characters? As I read in a post on this forum, in order to fix ©Apple CarPlay to read Apple CarPlay© I need to insert RTL markers followed by LTR markers. What are they? Where are they located? In InDesign, I simply select the Latin text and set it to read and write LTR.
How do I set the book and/or each chapter document to read from LTR to RTL? In InDesign, I press CTRL+SHIFT+P, select RTL reading order, and the document is set for RTL language. All columns, headers, and footers are set for RTL. Is there a way to do this in FrameMaker, too?
I noticed that tables can be set for RTL reading and writing order. So, that should be fine.
How about TOC? Should I set something in FrameMaker in order to generate the TOC for RTL? Will it do it without my intervention? Or will it be generated as LTR TOC, and I have to manually set the paragraphs for RTL reading and writing?
Any input will be highly appreciated.
Thank you.
Sebastian
