[XeTeX] [luatex] Info on direction primitives/implementation

Vafa Khalighi vkhalighi at icloud.com
Wed Dec 5 14:46:02 CET 2012


> I have combination of Czech, Hindi and Urdu in my book:
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/bharat.php
>
> The book is written in Czech but contains words and sometimes even
> sentences in Hindi and Urdu. The lines are often broken within the
> Urdu text. Since the book contains more than 300 pictures, almost all
> paragraphs require \parshape. The book was typeset in XeLaTeX using
> polyglossia. I had a lecture on typesetting this book (in Czech), you
> can see the abstract of the lecture in Czech and English and see the
> slides (in Czech only) here:
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/lectures/floatingtext.php
> I wanted to show how the line should properly be broken, in one of the
> slides I do it in one \item inside the itemize environtment. You can
> see that it works well. At least, in the Urdu-Hindi Dictionary
> published in India the lines are broken the very same way. Thus
> XeLaTeX allowed me to do whatever I needed.
 

This does not make much problems because your main direction is LTR and you just insert few RTL things. The real challenge starts when your document is mainly RTL.
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