[XeTeX] longtable and RTL (Arabic)

Persian TeX Group persian-tex at tug.org
Tue Apr 30 13:17:02 CEST 2013


See the documentation of version 13.2 of bidi package. An experimental
`bidi-longtable' is provided which should be loaded after loading bidi
package (you still need to load longtable package).


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Jens Bakker <jbakker at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
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> I would like to ask you for help with longtable and right to left writing
> direction, please. As the attached example with polyglossia, longtable, and
> main language Arabic shows, the text within the table is set correctly from
> right to left, but the cells of the table are set from left to right:
> "Titel" should be on the right and "Page" on the left. In the bidi manual
> (p.13, section 1.23) it is said, that tabulars are set left to right in an
> LTR environment and right to left in an RTL environment. What is my mistake?
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> With best wishes and best regards,
> Jens Bakker
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> P.S.: Strange enough, the English words "Titel" and "Page" are set
> correctly LTR without defining a Latin language in the preamble.
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> I am really sorry, I forgot to attach the files! Here they are:
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