Showing posts with label fucking R-to-L languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fucking R-to-L languages. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

My brain needs a reboot.

OK, I never post from work, but I have to share this one.

I just spent the last 5 hours typesetting a brochure in Hebrew. That means flipping the binding order, flipping all the art and text boxes on the pages to face the spine as in the English, and then formatting all the text.

I finished up, ran a PDF proof for the linguist to verify, and opened another file to work in Spanish. Except I can't.

My brain has completely switched to right-to-left mode, and even typing in English is difficult. I'm looking at my monitor and it's confusing to see things the "right" way. This must be what it feels like to come back from a 2-week vacation to a place where the traffic flows in a different direction. A lifetime of training undone in 5 hours.

I am so fucking discombobulated right now. Trippy.