epub reflowable paragraph last line has punctuation revesred

[notannhavoc]

I created a reflowable epub - epub 3 - from ID2020- windows 10

all seems to  work except that the las t line of each paragh has teh  closing punctuation followed by the text - so in other words - teh  punctuation comes before teh text on teh last line of a paragraph. most of my paragraphs are a simple body text style - justified - last line flush left.

[notannhavoc]

I have discovered teh culprit - in teh  css the following is added

<div id="_idContainer095" class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1" dir="ltr">
<p class="chapter-title ParaOverride-1" dir="ltr">

when I change dir="ltr" to dir="rtl" it  fixes the problem

But where is this coming from? - I have checked that  it is using adobe paragraph composer [not world-ready - which reverses.]

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Could be a character formatting issue with property character direction.

Select the dot at the end of a paragraph.

Do you see an override of the applied paragraph style?

Should be visible as + at the name of the paragraph style in the Paragraph Styles Panel.

If not, how is the paragraph style defined?

Can you show the overview of the style?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[notannhavoc]

Thak you for pointing me on the path to findign the problem. The culprit is Dan Rodney's widofix javascript which  fixes  "widows" - actually runts at the  paragraph's end. [see capture2.jpg] I used this  for the print edition and ran his widowfixremover script afterwards prior to  preparign the epub. I thougth that the script was totally removed but evidently  it has residual remains . 

I know now  never to use that script again in any publication intended for  epub/kindle.

to recap the problem:

1. Text appears and prints normally after running widow fix [see capture4,jpg]
2. Even after running the removewidowfix script, the  text direction is still rtl rather than ltr [see capture.jpg] 
3. this attribute does not show up in the export tagging dialogue [see capture 3,jpg]
4. When I export to epub, a css is applied that reverses the text direction [see capture6.jpg and capture5,jpg]

I’m thinking that the remove does not totally undo the damage done  for text direction.

last line has reversed punctuation due to css style

css has rtl text rather than ltr

text appears normal

teh widowfix script

text direction is rtl rather than ltr

the text direction css does not show here in export tagging