Just Some Techie Notes!

I was translating a document from English to Arabic in a Lotus Symphony document and it was really an annoying experience, as pressing the right cursor goes left and vice versa, as well as many other annoyances.

I searched the Symphony help and found that a feature called “CTL” (Complex Text Layout) enables Arabic support – as well as many other right-to-left languages – and it really helped.

This feature is not enabled by default, and to enable it, click on File->Preferences->Language Settings->Languages and check “Enabled for Complex Text Layout”, then you can choose the CTL language from the CTL drop-down list above (Arabic in my case).