[luatex] Vital RTL issues in LuaTeX

[Yannis Haralambous]

Le 10 avr. 09 à 08:11, وفا خلیقی a écrit :

> With RTL and LuaTeX there are vital issues that is ignored currently:
>
> - It is not true that everything that was LTR in RTL mode should be  
> the other way
>
> e.g: if you have \pagedir TRT \bodydr TRT \pardir TRT \textdir TRT,  
> then everything will be RTL but there are issues:
>
> 1- In persian we read numbers from left to right (thirteen=13) but  
> imagine in the table of contents, if the direction of the document  
> is RTL, then instead 13 we get 31 which is read 'thirty one' in  
> Persian.

that's the case in all RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, etc.).  
In Omega we were processing numbers using OTPs.

> 2- There are things both in LTR and Persian (perhaps in RTL as well)  
> that luatex's direction change does not make any sense, for example  
> \leftline, \rightline, \raggedleft, \raggedright and etc. In both  
> directions we want for example \leftline put some text at the left  
> and \rightline put some text at the right hand side because that is  
> what it should be but in LuaTeX in RTL, \leftline stands for  
> \rightline and \rightline stands for \leftline which is nonesense.

and there is a third issue: images. Often you will use different  
images whether you are in RTL or LTR mode (imagine an arrow or a  
pointing hand, it will have to point in the opposite direction). For  
that you may need a test \ifRTL\includegraphics{...}\else 
\includegraphics{...}\fi


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