Shows you how to set base text direction.

You can set user preferences for base text direction in the Designer through the Styling Customizer in Style Editing Mode. (The Styling Customizer provides the easiest way to set base text direction, but it can also be set by the baseTextDirection property in Styling Properties.)

You can also set base text direction preferences in the Map Builder, in the Dashboard Editor, and in the Symbol Editor.

You can also set base text direction preferences in the Dashboard Editor from the Options menu and in the Symbol Editor.

Base text direction can be set interactively according to your preference through Base Text Direction.

You can choose one of the following settings:

Base text direction and the implications of left to right, right to left, component orientation, contextual, and inherited values for directional runs are documented in Base text direction: supported values.

The default value Inherited means that the base text direction of the current object is inherited from its parent or container.

The text within the diagram is changed to right-to-left orientation, for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu.