I am designing a document with right to left (Arabic) and left to right (English) scripts combined.
I am having the following problems with Arabic.
1. When I paste the content, select the pasted content and choose Arabic in character properties, it changes the numbers written in English to Arabic. This is desired and correct.
2. The keyboard behaves abnormal. Pressing right moves the cursor left and vice versa. It jumps from the end of the line to beginning. Its all messed up basically.
3. If I put a full stop / period, it always ends up on the other side of the line.
".this is an example" something like that in Arabic equivalent instead of "this is an example."
This happens with quotes, semi colons, periods and many other symbols.
I've found a way to fix this. If I select the entire pasted text then "fill with placeholder text" it puts text after the pasted text and everything starts behaving as it should. The periods shift to the correct side, so do the quotes. The keyboard and cursor behaves as it should and everything becomes normal and how I am desiring.
The problem with this however is that I everytime have to fill with placeholder and then remove the text uptil the pasted text. This is getting quite tedious since the document is quite long!
I want to understand how filling with placeholder text is fixing the problem for left to right script. Probably there is some setting/global or local that I am missing which can make this a lot easier for me?
Please do suggest. Thank you for the help!
Also I am using the latest Indesign 2020. If that information is needed
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