Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:58:21 -0600, Hans Hagen
wrote: 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. =========
Think of footnote numerals etc. IIRC: Without \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT the footnote numerals will appear on the left despite \pardir and \textdir.
sure, but we might as well deal with them in a special r-l aware mode (probably easier) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------