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In the middle of the night, Sociopath Maxey began whining to the
newsgroup that I wasn't acknowledging his messages, so he emailed me a document that does indeed contain Arabic text, in a right-to-left section (apparently he failed to read the posting to which he appended this response), that does indeed contain line numbering in the right margin. Extending the sample text to more than 4 lines, I found that it also works with counting every fifth line. This does not explain, however, why the line numbering does not appear on screen at all in my actual file within a right-to-left section containing actual Arabic text, or why when the page is printed, the line numbers do appear -- printed over the text -- inset from the right margin. I experimented with each of these parameters: changing the font from TNR to the one I was using ("Arabic Typesetting"); line numbering in This section only; Next page section break instead of Continuous; narrowing the margins to match those in my document. In each case, line numbering appears properly in Greg's document and not in my document. His document includes the macro for changing section direction, but the macro does not appear to contain a line number command. On Nov 2, 1:05*am, "Greg Maxey" wrote: Mr. Daniels, You were the one that posted here claiming it didn't exist. *Where you blinded by arrogance? I looked before enabling an Arabic language. *Hopefully my self admitted ignorance of the world's languages wiil excuse the oversight. Would you like for me to post a picture for the whole world to see or send you an example? Peter T. Daniels wrote: As usual, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail The existence of a "SectionDirection" command within PageSetup prompted me to look more closely for the option. In order to make a section read right-to-left, go to Page Setup Layout second dropdown at the top. No macro needed. However, though line numbers are checked, they do not display. (In fact, they blinked off when I Ok'd the Page Setup Layout change, though the Line Numbers box was still checked.) So it appears _still_ to be impossible to get line numbers in the right margin with right-to- left text. On Nov 1, 7:55 pm, "Greg Maxey" wrote: Yes. If you have an appropriate language enabled (e.g., Arabic (Iraq)) then you can use a macro to set specific section direction. For example the following macro will display line numbers in the right margin in secton 1. Sub ScratchMaco() ActiveDocument.Sections(1).PageSetup.SectionDirect ion = wdSectionDirectionRtl End Sub Note: If you do not have an appropriate language enabled (I defer to Mr. Daniels' expertise on what other languages may or may not be appropriate) or subsequently disable the language then this setting will suppress the display of line numbering. To restore them you would need to set the direction back to left to right using: Sub ScratchMaco() ActiveDocument.Sections(1).PageSetup.SectionDirect ion = wdSectionDirectionLtr End Sub Peter T. Daniels wrote: I'm typing a page of Arabic. Is there any way to get the line numbers to appear in the right margin (i.e., at the beginnings of the lines)? Setting "mirror margins" doesn't do it. -- Greg Maxey See my web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. -- Greg Maxey See my web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips.- |
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