[luatex] bug in RTL typesetting?

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Apr 2 12:30:59 CEST 2009


Sorry, I forgot the URLs!

[1]http://farsitex.org/
[2]http://www.ucam.ac.ma/fssm/rydarab/

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:28:09PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:42:38AM +0200, Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, ??? ????? wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes, the equations should appear at the center.
> > 
> > maybe, but now the it does the same as aleph. Needs thinking how it
> > should be right...
> 
> I noted that. I think it should be affected only by \mathdir changes,
> when \mathdir is TLT, I think the user expects math to be done the way
> TeX usually does it. I checked FarsiTeX[1] and RyDArab[2] typeset
> samples, and both put the equation in the middle of the page (in 
> FarsiTeX math is always LTR, while RyDArab can typeset RTL math as
> well). I thought that equation number position should be swapped, but
> FarsiTeX don't swap it, so I think it'd be better controlled at macro
> level.
> 
> I think the current behaviour of TRT math is OK.
> 
> Regards,
>  Khaled
> 
> -- 
>  Khaled Hosny
>  Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
>  Free font developer

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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