[lltx] bidi package extended for LuaLaTeX

Vafa Khalighi vafa at users.berlios.de
Sun Apr 4 13:47:22 CEST 2010


>
> Well, I don't think fixing bugs in my *head* is that easy.
>

I did not mean that you fix that in your head, but that needs to get fixed
in the package.


>
>
> I still have a very valid reasons for my ill doings, I want to keep
> things as simple as it can, and make sharing code between rtl and ltr
> documents more easy, so I simply consider right and left here as
> misnomers of start and end, this makes it more logical. If I were to
> write a tabular package myself, I would then use the neutral start/end
> nomenclature.
>


We are not talking about "me" here. If we were so, things would be heaps
easier.


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>
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> To me, swapping the meaning of r and l is a misfeature (like the
> automatic footnote thing that I never seen in a real world book;
> footnotes in Arabic books are aligned to right no mutter what the actual
> footnote text it.)
>
>
I have seen a lot of the textbooks with automatic footnoterule. I am talking
about academic typography and academic textbooks not about a novel. In
Persian RTL typography, autofootnoterule is a must.


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Best wishes,
Vafa Khalighi


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