11 Jul
2016
11 Jul
'16
2:05 p.m.
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. Javier