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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>First of all many thanks to Jonathan Kew, Hans hagen, Gerben
Wierda, Adam Lindsay and the many people on the list which I cannot
name them all, for giving us their wonderful contributions... and
being so patient to solve the problems we may encounter!</div>
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<div>Following the discussions on the list, I succeeded to upgrade to
XeTeX 0.91 and, as I do usually, I made several testings on the files
contained in "XeTeX Samples". Most of them go through
without difficulty, but I noticed a strange behaviour with the sample
file "Arabic.tex" regarding Right-to-Left text.</div>
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<div>To be more specific, typesetting the file "Arabic.tex"
with XeTeX 0.91 and the "plain" format xetex, each word is
typeset correctly from right to left, while the order of the words in
the sentence is left to right, that is reversed.</div>
<div>However, interestingly enough, the sample file
"ArabicOpenType.tex", which contains the same text but uses
some other fonts, behaves as is expected. (Please see below).</div>
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<div>The same behaviour appears with Right-to-Left text using the
format "xe-context" that is the format generated with xetex
and ConTeXt. In this case the position of punctuation marks is also
incorrect, and with some other texts the horizontal spacing is
somewhat strange.</div>
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<div>Am I missing something in the upgrade process?</div>
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<div>Thanks for your attention: OK</div>
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