Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:06:19 +0100:
ha, funny side effect, somehow i think that this kind of automatisms are dangerous (same for language)
I don't know, actually.
so, maybe we're talking about \worddir as well
i think that it makes sense to have an xtex switch for disabling this automatism: three states: font, font+tex, tex
Shall I propose that to Jonathan, or you?
(what happen swith arabic in rl mode? does it get reversed due to the font?)
Arabic is very happy in RL mode, it's its natural state.
another interesting feature can be a kind of hook into this language mechanism, like
\XeTeXbeginlanguage{en}{tokens} \XeTeXendlanguage{en}{tokens}
and that these are expanded automatically when a language switches.
I saw that sort of thing in m-gamma. It sounds sensible.
btw, i didn't test that yet, but xetex could be a nice fo engine [i'm currently working on foxet]
I'm thinking so, as well. Haven't tested it with those modules yet, but it tears through cont-ml code with aplomb. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-