Re: [Dev-luatex] Modifying the LuaTeX Engine

Hi, Norbert: Can you show me an example of vertical typesetting in LuaTeX? you can use Latin Modern Mono fonts as example. Thanks Yue Wang On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:

On So, 28 Dez 2008, وفا خلیقی، Vafa Khalighi wrote:

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I just felt that you guys think the current bidirectional algorithm of LuaTeX is fine and have no interest to study other systems.

Because the bidi algo of luatex is more advanced, it can do arbitrary rotation text/char/page directions, not simply left-right-left. Finished. That is needed for Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian to name a few.

Best wishes

Norbert

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