Re: [NTG-context] Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 07:34:03PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Hi Khaled,

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:52:27 -0600, Khaled Hosny wrote:

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experimental in the beta

\setcharactermirroring[1]

It does work perfectly with unidirectional texts (RTL or LTR), but when mixing bi-directional text, like Arabic text between brackets inside English line, the closing bracket takes the direction of the embedded text not the main line. See the attached example.

I just worked with this, and made some symmetrical definitions: see the attached modified files.

\setcharactermirroring[0,1] works in both uni- and bi-directional text -- note that each bracketpair is inside of its respective directional context.

Thanks for the fix, this makes it more organized indeed.

However, for the FIRST occurence of a bracket-pair in a bidi paragraph it does not behave as expected.

It may be that the second invocation of \setcharactermirroring does not immediately override the last. Maybe we need a \flush or \clearsetcharactermirroring command?

I'm new at TeX/ConTeXt, all what I can do is to confirm that I'm getting the same output as yours. Regards, Khaled

Best wishes Idris

-- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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