Overview of Support for Non-Latin Text in Arbortext Styler

Arbortext Styler includes support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, and Thai languages, both in terms of the characters that can be used in text and the formatting properties that can be applied to that text. The features that support content in these languages are summarized below, with each being dealt with in more detail in subsequent topics:

• Combined fonts (see Combined Fonts): the Arbortext Styler UI provides an interface whereby a user can create a user defined font that specifies which system font(s) should be used to display the different characters or character blocks in a piece of text

• List and page numbering (see List and Page Numbering): non-Latin numbering styles are included in the list of available numbering schemes for page sets, divisions, formal blocks, tables of content, list items, footnotes, and indexes.

• Hanging punctuation (see Hanging Punctuation): certain characters are permitted to hang outside the margins of the text area

• Underlining and strikethrough of text (see Text Underlining and Strikethrough): a number of underline and strikethrough styles beyond the simple straight rule

• Right-to-left text direction (see Right-to-Left Layout Direction): layout text from the right margin to the left margin, instead of the default left-to-right text direction.

It is recommended that you elect to preview and publish your documents via the PTC ALD print engine to ensure that non-Latin text, punctuation, or formatting properties in your document are treated correctly. Right to left writing direction, hanging punctuation, and word boundaries for Thai content are only enabled if PTC ALD is the effective print engine for your environment. See Logic for Print/Preview Engine Selection for details on how to set the effective print engine for your environment.

PTC ALD includes support for Hebrew, Arabic, and Thai languages in print and PDF outputs:

Please refer to Working with Non-Latin Language Content in Arbortext Editor help for further information.

You must elect to compose via the PTC ALD print engine to enable these features. Please refer to Logic for Print/Preview Engine Selection for information on how to set the effective print engine for your environment.