<div dir="ltr">It is one of the known bugs of package bidi-longtable that you are using. A workaround would be adding<div><br></div><div>\everypar{\beginL}</div><div><br></div><div>Before the paragraph that you want to typeset LTR.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Jens Bakker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbakker@uni-bonn.de" target="_blank">jbakker@uni-bonn.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,<br>
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I would like to ask you for advice with the following problem, please:<br>
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Before an Arabic longtable the Latin (english) paragraph is forced into a rtl paragraph, what is my mistake? Please see the attached minimal example.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Jens Bakker<br>
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