Bi-Directional Text Marks

LILT Translate supports right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR) directional marks. These controls are used to determine the way adjacent characters are grouped with the respect to text direction.

As an example, let’s look at the phrase: “The language C++ is a programming language used…”

When translating from English to Arabic without an LTR mark, the browser will render the phrase into this:

لغة ++C هي لغة برمجة تستخدم…

With an LTR entered inserted after “C++”, it will render as the writer intends:

لغة C++ هي لغة برمجة تستخدم…

This video demo in a previous version of LILT Translate further demonstrates how directional marks work.

Directional marks can be added into the target text field from the Insert tab. Add a mark directly after the word you want to set directionality on.

You can also insert marks by using the following keyboard shortcuts:

Marker	Windows Shortcut	Mac Shortcut
Right-to-Left (RTL)	Ctrl + K	⌘ + K
Left-to-Right (LTR)	Ctrl + L	⌘ + L