Right-to-left Layout of paragraphs switches after first paragraph when in framed section

28 Dec 2025

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*Problem:*
When using r2l alignment, layout of paragraphs appears to be flipped (from
r2l to l2r) after correctly placing the first paragraph inside of a frame.

*Questions:*
1. What is going on? (I'm not sure how to describe what's happening.) Is
the paragraph not being formatted correctly or the frame?
2. What document can I look at to understand what's happening to format the
text? typo-duc.lmt seems to be referencing some other work that has
sections and tagged rules. What document is that?
3. What are typo-dir, typo-dha, and typo-duc each doing? I'm curious to
know so I can better navigate the codebase going forward.

*Context Version:*
ConTeXt ver: 2025.11.24 17:55 LMTX fmt: 2025.12.24 int: english/english
(LMTX fmt with more of the typesetters enabled for looking at the logs)

*Code Example:*
\definefontfeature[minimal][default][
script=hebr
]

\starttypescript [serif] [hebrew]
\definefontsynonym [Serif]
[file:/workspaces/context_lmtx/context_2/build_from_cmake_2/context_from_scratch/tex/texmf-fonts/firago/FiraGO-Regular.ttf][features=minimal]
\stoptypescript

\definetypeface [hebrew] [rm] [serif] [hebrew]
\definetypeface [hebrew] [ss] [serif] [hebrew]

\setupbodyfont[hebrew, 20pt]
\setupalign[r2l]
\setupdirections[bidi=on, method=two]

\defineframed[Zimmun][width=\textwidth,align={flushleft,nothyphenated,verytolerant,r2l},
frame=off]

\defineparagraphs[SubZimmun][n=2,before={\blank},after={},align=r2l]
\setupparagraphs[SubZimmun][1][width=.3\textwidth,align=middle]

\define[1]\instructionalText{{\switchtobodyfont[hebrew,8pt]#1}}
\enabletrackers["typesetters"]
\showdirections

\starttext
\Zimmun
{
\showdirections
\setupalign[righttoleft]
\showdirections
שלושה שאכלו כאחד חייבין בזימון, וכך מזמנין:
\startSubZimmun
\showdirections
\instructionalText{
המזמן אומר:
}
\SubZimmun
רַבּוֹתַי נְבָרֵךְ:
\stopSubZimmun

\startSubZimmun
\instructionalText{
המסובים עונים:
}
\SubZimmun
\showdirections
יְהִי שֵׁם יְהֹוָה מְבֹרָךְ מֵעַתָּה וְעַד־עוֹלָם:
\stopSubZimmun

\startSubZimmun
\instructionalText{
וממשיך:
}
\SubZimmun
בִּרְשׁוּת מָרָנָן וְרַבָּנָן וְרַבּוֹתַי נְבָרֵךְ (בעשרה אֱלֺהֵֽינוּ)
שֶׁאָכַֽלְנוּ מִשֶּׁלּוֹ:
\stopSubZimmun
}

\instructionalText{
המסובים עונים:
}
בָּרוּךְ (בעשרה אֱלֺהֵֽינוּ) שֶֽׁאָכַֽלְנוּ מִשֶּׁלּוֹ וּבְטוּבוֹ חָיִֽינוּ:

\stoptext

The above code produces the result (with my line annotations added by hand)
that's attached. Image to come.

*Comments on image:*
Line 2 appears to be formatted as I expect. The smaller text is located on
the right of the larger text.
Lines 3 and 4 appear to be formatted incorrectly with the smaller text
being placed on the left of the larger text instead of the right. I think
this placement makes sense if there is something that is causing the layout
of the paragraph elements to be l2r at that point.
Line 5 appears to be formatted as I expect. It is not using the Zimmun
frame or SubZimmun paragraph blocks. Therefore, the small text appears to
the right of the larger text.

Throughout the generated document the layout shows as l2r. I would expect
it to be r2l since I've set that up with \setupalign.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Best,
Aryeh

Aryeh Zapinsky

Wolfgang Schuster

Udi Fogiel

Wolfgang Schuster

Hans Hagen

Wolfgang Schuster

Aryeh Zapinsky

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