[XeTeX] Images in LTR text

[Jonathan Kew]

On 5 Nov 2005, at 1:19 am, musa furber wrote:

> When I use insert an image into a stream of LTR text,

(I assume you meant RTL here...)

Are you inserting the image using \XeTeXpicfile, or are you using  
some higher-level LaTeX construction?

> the image is drawn from LTR (against the flow of the RTL text) so  
> it ends up drawing over the previous characters.
>
> Is this how things are supposed to and should be? If so, can anyone  
> recommend a solution?

Hmm.... can't say I'd really considered it!

In a quick test with \XeTeXpicfile in a line of Arabic text, I see  
what you mean; not good. I should think about this.

You should be able to avoid the issue by surrounding the image with  
\beginL...\endL, so that XeTeX knows it is a left-to-right segment. I  
tried:

     \hbox{\beginL \XeTeXpicfile "mypic.jpg"\endL}

within Arabic text, and this seems to work fine. (Without the \hbox  
around the image, it seems to come out wrongly spaced.... this is  
probably a bug that I should investigate. In practice, I always box  
images, as I usually want to get their dimensions, etc.)

JK