[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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