[XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.
Keith J. Schultz
schultzk at uni-trier.de
Wed Dec 4 10:07:28 CET 2013
Hi Scott,
Am 03.12.2013 um 19:42 schrieb C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net>:
>
> But in the XeLaTeX/polyglossia/bidi output, the "soft space" weak
> directionality of the Unicode BiDi algorithm doesn't seem to be
> honored (or implemented?) and so the English article titles appear
> with the individual words in RTL order, which is a mess. Manually
> tagging the language of the article title is probably the Right thing,
> but infeasible for the entire wikipedia.
Well, without proper tagging you can not expect any system to
work properly or as expected!
For most entries a simple script should do the trick to add the
language tags to the article titles.
Hope this helps
regards
Keith.
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