Feature/arabic rtl shaping - #604
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PDF text operators draw glyphs left to right with no script specific logic, so Arabic came out as disconnected letters in reversed order. Add pkg/rtl, which shapes the Arabic letters into their Presentation Forms-B contextual forms, contracts the mandatory lam-alef ligatures and lays the bidirectional runs out visually. Run segmentation follows UAX#9 through golang.org/x/text/unicode/bidi, already in the dependency tree. Wire it into the text pipeline per emitted line, after the line breaking and with candidate widths measured on the shaped form, plus the checkbox label. Enabled by the opt-in props RTL flag, and text without Arabic characters is returned unchanged. Refs johnfercher#370
Table driven tests over the shaping of the 36 letter repertoire, the four lam-alef ligatures in both forms, the U+064B..U+0652 marks and the mixed arabic, latin and digit runs, plus the byte for byte passthrough of text without arabic. The pipeline tests assert the exact string that reaches Fpdf.Text, and the coordinates wherever the order is what matters: the justified words come out in visual order, a wrapped line keeps its own base direction and a ligature is measured contracted so the line still fits.
Replace the class switch by explicit comparisons so exhaustive does not ask for the twenty bidi classes the base direction ignores, and lift the error out of the if to satisfy noinlineerr. Tell misspell that "teh" is the Unicode name of the Arabic letters ت and ة rather than a typo of "the".
The example renders the same string with and without the flag, plus a right aligned line, a mixed arabic, latin and digit line, a wrapping paragraph and a checkbox label, using the arial-unicode-ms font already in the repository because it carries the presentation form glyphs.
Revert the misspell ignore rule and spell the two letter names the spell checker rejects as taa and taa marbuta instead, so the change stays inside the feature and does not touch shared configuration.
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WalkthroughAdds opt-in Arabic shaping and bidirectional reordering. Integrates RTL text and checkbox properties with GoFPDF rendering. Adds tests, Arabic examples, fixtures, benchmark output, and documentation. ChangesArabic RTL rendering
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Opt-in RTL rendering can produce incorrectly ordered Arabic text when paragraphs contain embedded Latin words, numbers, or punctuation. The PR is not merge-ready until this bounded rendering issue is fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ArabicExample
participant Maroto
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participant rtlProcess as rtl.Process
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ArabicExample->>Maroto: Build RTL document
Maroto->>GoFPDF: Render RTL text and checkbox content
GoFPDF->>rtlProcess: Process RTL-enabled text
rtlProcess-->>GoFPDF: Return shaped visual-order text
GoFPDF->>PDFFile: Measure and write PDF content
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In `@docs/assets/examples/arabic/v2/main_test.go`:
- Around line 21-28: Update buildPath to construct the repository-relative path
with OS-aware filepath operations, using filepath.Join and five parent-directory
segments so the returned path resolves to docs/assets/fonts correctly on Windows
and Unix. Replace the string-based suffix removal and path.Join usage while
preserving the existing empty-string return when os.Getwd fails.
In `@docs/v2/features/arabic.md`:
- Around line 3-6: Update the compound modifiers in the Arabic documentation to
use hyphens: change “script specific” to “script-specific” and the corresponding
“left to right” wording near the PDF text-operator description to
“left-to-right.”
- Around line 69-85: Add the required blank lines after the headings in the
Arabic feature documentation, including GoDoc, Code Example, PDF Generated, Time
Execution, and Test File, and add blank lines before and after the pdf fenced
block to satisfy MD022 and MD031.
In `@pkg/rtl/bidi.go`:
- Around line 44-45: Update the RTL branch in the bidi run-processing logic to
use bidi.ReverseString on run.String() instead of reverseClusters, so paired
brackets are mirrored while reversing and modifier placement is preserved.
- Around line 51-53: Remove the reverseSlice(runs) call from the RTL branch in
Paragraph.Order(), preserving the visual run sequence returned by
Paragraph.Order() while retaining each Run.String() value unchanged.
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A bracket moved to the opposite side of a right-to-left run still faced
the way it did in the logical string, so a parenthesised insertion came
out as ")Maroto(" instead of "(Maroto)". The UAX#9 rule L4 asks for the
mirrored glyph and the PDF writer draws the code point it is handed, so
the substitution has to happen here.
The mirroring is applied inside reverseClusters rather than by swapping
it for bidi.ReverseString: that function documents that modifiers follow
the runes they modify, but it reverses rune by rune and moves every
diacritic onto the wrong letter.
Spell the direction names with hyphens where they qualify a noun, as in right-to-left text and left-to-right writer, and leave them unhyphenated where they read as a phrase, as in drawn from left to right.
Every other function in the package explains itself; the missing comment on reverseSlice is also what CodeRabbit's docstring coverage check points at within pkg/rtl.
The helper cut the working directory down with a forward-slash string replacement, which never matches the backslashed paths os.Getwd returns on Windows. Walking five segments up with filepath.Join reaches the repository root on every platform. The four existing examples that carry the same helper are aligned in a separate change on top of master.
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Ended up adopting the portable form here too; the existing copies are aligned in the companion PR — see #607. |
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Description
Adds opt-in right-to-left text support so Arabic renders correctly in generated PDFs.
Arabic in a PDF needs two things that maroto did not do before:
This PR adds a new
pkg/rtlpackage that does both, and wires it into the text and checkbox providers behind a newRTL boolprop:The prop is opt-in rather than automatic because text that the caller already shaped would otherwise be processed twice. Text with no Arabic characters is left untouched even when
RTLis enabled, so turning it on for mixed content is safe.Public API added:
rtl.Process(text string) string— shapes and reorders a single linertl.ContainsArabic(text string) boolprops.Text.RTLandprops.Checkbox.RTLTricky technical details worth reviewing:
rtl.Processexpects a single already-wrapped line. Running it over a whole paragraph would reorder the paragraph as one unit and produce visually reversed lines. The provider therefore breaks lines on the logical text and processes each resulting line on its own, giving each line its own base direction. This is documented onProcessitself.GetLinesQuantitymeasure the processed form. Otherwise wrapping breaks too early.golang.org/x/text/unicode/bidi, which was already in the dependency tree. The reordering itself is implemented locally becausebidi.Orderingexposes runs in logical order and only reports each run's direction, not its embedding level — x/text computes the levels but discards everything except their parity, and the functions implementing the UAX#9 rule L2 reordering are unexported. The result is exact for the mixed content this targets (Arabic with embedded Latin, numbers and punctuation). Embeddings three or more levels deep collapse onto the second level and may be placed incorrectly; this limitation is documented in the code.golang.org/x/textmoves from an indirect to a direct dependency. No new module is introduced.Docs, a runnable example (
docs/assets/examples/arabic/v2) and its generated PDF are included, plus the feature page underdocs/v2/features/arabic.mdand godoc examples forpkg/rtland theRTLprop.Related Issue
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