27 Dec
2008
27 Dec
'08
7:16 p.m.
The fact automatic direction change is hardcoded is a serious drawback, and not and advantage, imo. There are many subtle points in bidi typesetting which can be addressed only in a
I believe the automatic direction change is the main advantage otherwise typesetting with TeX is unnatural and useless.
Of course, but it shouldn't be _hardcoded_ in the TeX engine, but programmed at a higher level (ie, tex macros, lua, etc.) so that we can control its behaviour. Javier ----------------------------- http://www.tex-tipografia.com