Re: [NTG-context] Switching to righttoleft without changing margins of delimited text

14 Dec 2021

      Hi Hans,
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Von: Hans Hagen 
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Gesendet: Montag, 13. Dezember 2021 17:43
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Cc: Maier, Denis Christian (UB) 
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Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Switching to righttoleft without changing margins
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On 12/13/2021 5:25 PM, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote:
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Hi,
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\righttext seems to change the locations of the margins, i.e.
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leftmargin becomes rightmargin and vice-versa. That may be nice in
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some situations, but I need to keep the margins where they are. Is
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there a way to do this? (Maybe \righttoleft is the wrong command?) I
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thought I could define a new rtlblockquote with appropriate settings, like
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so:
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\definedelimitedtext[rtlblockquote]
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\setupdelimitedtext[rtlblockquote]
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[leftmargin=0em,rightmargin=1.5em,before={\righttoleft}]
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But maybe there’s a better way. Any hints?
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You switch directions when we're still in vertical mode, so you need:
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\startblockquote
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\dontleavehmode\righttoleft\ignorespaces

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\input knuth

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\stopblockquote
I'm afraid this doesn't give the desired result. While this fixes the inverted margins issue, this keeps the whole paragraph in LTR-mode.

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The expected result (created with rtlblockquote) would be this:

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So, the question remains: is a dedicated startstop-pair to achieve this (what’s the proper name of those anyway? In latex these are environments, but that feels odd in context)? Or are there easier solutions?

Denis

Re: [NTG-context] Switching to righttoleft without changing margins of delimited text

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