[FR] RTL support

[asafm]

[FR] RTL support

[notd5a-alt]

I think this would be possible to implement once the developers implement their plugin system for the app.

[zoli]

Now Appflowy Editor supports RTL. IMO the next step will be RTL support in Appflowy Board and Grid.

[zoli]

It's very weird implementation. Usually if you are in Google Doc, or Word, you choose the LTR or RTL direction for the current paragraph. Many times it simply detects if the language is LTR and switches for you automatically - Facebook posts (when you create a new post) is a good example. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have one direction set for the entire app.

You can have auto direction detection when setting direction to AUTO. About the per-paragraph direction, I agree with you. This was available in Appflowy a while ago but now its limited to RTL layout direction, So If you set the layout direction to RTL you can set a paragraph direction to either LTR/RTL/AUTO.
I discussed with @LucasXu0 enabling per-paragraph direction in all layout directions we concluded to put a setting for enabling it in the toolbar menu for all layout directions.
The reason for not enabling it by default is because it might confuse some users.

[zoli]

@annieappflowy If by plugin label you mean appflowy editors plugin, How this can be implemented via plugin? From what I see for supporting RTL in Appflowy document which is mostly related to appflowy editor core. Appflowy editor should enable setting textDirection on RichText which FlowyRichText builds it.

[zoli]

Just noting some thoughts here:
Probably TextNode should support direction attribute which sets the RichText textDirection property.
There could be LTR, RTL, AUTO for TextNode direction attribute which could get determined by appflowy toolbar. As RichText doesn't support AUTO internally appflowy editor should handle that part itself (maybe with strong directionality concept).

[zoli]

I would like to take on this.

cc: @annieappflowy

[annieappflowy]

Thank you!!

[annieappflowy]

@asafm, please try out the latest release

Toggle on the RTL switch in Settings to write in the RTL layout

[zoli]

@annieappflowy Still RTL support for board and grid is left.

[asafm]

It's very weird implementation.
Usually if you are in Google Doc, or Word, you choose the LTR or RTL direction for the current paragraph. Many times it simply detects if the language is LTR and switches for you automatically - Facebook posts (when you create a new post) is a good example.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to have one direction set for the entire app.