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On 7/11/2016 4:05 PM, Javier Bezos wrote:
Indeed, as the document layout is kind of independent of the writing direction.
The writing direction could influence the perception of pictures and graphic elements. A good example is The Great Wave off Kanagawa. In a document, think of an arrow introducing an item. But, of course, these things belong to the package level, while indents and the like are pure text and therefore should be handled by TeX itself.
fighting hard codes built in assumptions is a pain which is why we don't extend the inner working (apart from a bit configurability and callbacks) ... there are many views on how mixed direction can be combined with a specific directional layout and rendering the paragraph is just one thing that happens and even 'pure text' is a fluent concept ... getting some agreement on how-to is basically a no-go and therefore lua is chosen as way to reach your goals Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------