[XeTeX] [luatex] Info on direction primitives/implementation

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:56:10AM +0000, Joseph Wright wrote:
> from what you say about TeX--XeT and bidi, using pdfTeX/XeTeX is not
> currently to be recommended for RTL work

It depends on what kinds of documents you typeset, for me broken
hyperlinks is a show stopper (it is mainly why I shifted my interest to
LuaTeX early on), for me XeTeX as it stands now is not usable for RTL
typesetting, but, as Jonathan said, it works perfectly well for many
others.

Regards,
Khaled