<div dir="ltr"><pre> François Charette has done some changes/redefinitions in \@arabic macro for RTL languages in polyglossia and I told him that there is no need for such change/redefinition as bidi makes sure that section numbers and anything that needs to use<br>
arabic counter, is done properly. I think chaning/redefining \@arabic counter would have some side effects. For instance, I think if you redefine \@arabic the way polyglossia has done and then you use algorithm package to typeset algorithms,<br>
you no longer would get line numbers for the algorithm you typeset and so you have to modify algorithm package too, so my point is eventually that \@arabic should not be changed in any way as bidi makes sure that everything is done properly.<br>
</pre><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best wishes,<br>Vafa Khalighi<br>
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