Default bidirectional text and glyph shaping

You can specify to allow bidirectional (BiDi) text and automatic shaping of Arabic glyphs, when entering new texts in a Document. Normally, Arabic text requires this, but if fast formatting is important, you have the possibility to leave this setting off.

To use bidirectional text and shaping by default

1	Select Tools > Options. The Options dialog opens.

2	Select Defaults > Paragraph.

3	Set BiDi and Shaping to Simple.

You can enable/disable bidirectional text and shaping for a specific paragraph in the Properties panel Paragraph category.