[XeTeX] Babel

[Vafa Khalighi]

Another one:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\makeatletter
\input{rlbabel.def}
\@rltrue
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Test 1}
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Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the
1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to
make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but
also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets
containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing
software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the
1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to
make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but
also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets
containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing
software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the
1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to
make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but
also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets
containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing
software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
\section{Test 2}
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the
1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to
make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but
also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets
containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing
software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
\end{document}

Problem: left and right margins are not the same.

Expected Behaviour: use bidi package to see what expected behaviour is
(left and right margins should the same)

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Vafa Khalighi <simurgh12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did not say it is problem free. I exactly said "babel can use bidi
> package for its bidirectional typesetting rather than its own (rlbabel.def)
> which has too many problems.". I only claimed that rlbabel.def has too many
> problems and bidi does not have these. I do not see why this is strong. If
> you have used both packages, you will realise that it is a reality not even
> a claim. I did not force anyone to use anything, I only suggested. You
> know, nothing is problem free, if you even write 5 lines of TeX code, it
> would not be problem free.
>
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>wrote:
>
>> I didn’t say it is bad or people should not be using it, but indirectly
>> claiming it is “problem-free” is very strong claim given how evasive it
>> is. 17000+ lines of code rewriting parts of a 100+ packages is not
>> something I’d force into people by making it a hard dependency of base
>> package like babel, no matter how useful it is as the whole approach is
>> fundamentally flawed and very fragile, this is IMO one of the very dark
>> sides of LaTeX.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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