Feature Request: Right to left text

Hi,

It was nice to see the option worksheet.right_to_left() that flips the sheet to appear from right to left, but I couldn’t find a cell formatting option to write RTL text, could this be implemented please… Thanks.

[jmcnamara]

It is missing from the documentation (I will add it) but there is a Format property called reading_order that controls this:

import xlsxwriter


workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook('test.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()

myformat = workbook.add_format({'reading_order': 2})

worksheet.write('A1', 'Foo Bar', myformat)

workbook.close()

The options are:

1. Left to right
2. Right to left

Try it out and let me know if that is what you are looking for.

[jmcnamara]

I’ve updated the docs and added an example. Thanks for the text and the example file.

http://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.io/example_right_to_left.html