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right-to-left

Speech parts

1. right-to-left - Adjective

2. right-to-left - Adverb

Meaning

right-to-left (not comparable)

(chiefly of text) That is written (and is read) from right to left.

right-to-left (not comparable)

(chiefly of text) From right to left.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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right to left

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Donald Knuth himself created "unofficial" modified versions, such as TeX-XeT, which allows a user to mix texts written in left-to-right and right-to-left writing systems in the same document. Source: Internet

In particular, the Unicode standard provides foundations for complete BiDi support, with detailed rules as to how mixtures of left-to-right and right-to-left scripts are to be encoded and displayed. Source: Internet

Hebrew and Yiddish are also written right-to-left, but they use a question mark that appears on the page in the same orientation as the Roman-alphabet question mark. Source: Internet

LRM stands for left-to-right mark (U+200E) and RLM stands for right-to-left mark (U+200F). Source: Internet

It is possible to simply flip the left-to-right display order to a right-to-left display order, but doing this sacrifices the ability to correctly display left-to-right scripts. Source: Internet

Notation is read from left to right, which makes setting music for right-to-left scripts difficult. Source: Internet

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