Hi Hans,

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

> Von: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>

> Gesendet: Montag, 13. Dezember 2021 17:43

> An: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>

> Cc: Maier, Denis Christian (UB) <denis.maier@unibe.ch>

> 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:

> > Hi,

> >

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> >

> > \righttext seems to change the locations of the margins, i.e.

> > leftmargin becomes rightmargin and vice-versa. That may be nice in

> > some situations, but I need to keep the margins where they are. Is

> > there a way to do this? (Maybe \righttoleft is the wrong command?) I

> > thought I could define a new rtlblockquote with appropriate settings, like

> so:

> >

> > \definedelimitedtext[rtlblockquote]

> >

> > \setupdelimitedtext[rtlblockquote]

> >

> >

> > [leftmargin=0em,rightmargin=1.5em,before={\righttoleft}]

> >

> > But maybe there’s a better way. Any hints?

> You switch directions when we're still in vertical mode, so you need:

>

> \startblockquote

>      \dontleavehmode\righttoleft\ignorespaces

>      \input knuth

> \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.

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

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