[XeTeX] New version of xetex

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Tue Jul 29 17:27:45 CEST 2014


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 03:35:57PM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> > \hbox \bgroup $\beginR
> 
> but couldn't you just do
> 
> \hbox \bgroup \beginR$

That wouldn't work, as math (inline and display) are ensured to always
be LTR. The original assumption was that you never need RTL math, but
this is wrong both for actual math (which is set right to left in
countries like Egypt) and (ab)using math mode for non-math material like
here.

Regards,
Khaled



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