Re: [NTG-context] Figures are misplaced with \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT

3 Sep 2008

      Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:58:21 -0600, Hans Hagen  wrote:
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i'm wondering ... why do we need pagedir and bodydir?
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\pagedir  The direction for pages (\shipout).
\bodydir  The direction for vboxes, including the main body of text.
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Think of footnote numerals etc. IIRC: Without \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT the  
footnote numerals will appear on the left despite \pardir and \textdir.
I still don't completely _separately_ understand \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT,  
but together they seem to make sense to me. Taco once started explainig  
these two to Hans and I a few months back but that thread was never  
completed... I'll look up where we left things off.
among the pending issues was 'where do we explicitly need to set it and 
when do we need to compensate for it'

for some reason inserts (the figure) are sensitive to it and it might be 
some interference as well as a missing explicit dir reversal

[omega provides these mechanisms but i think that there was never a full 
blown macro package using them, i.e. mixed direction support and such; 
there might be many places where we need to add dir-checking code to 
context; a few places already have it]

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