Khaled Hosny wrote:
In Aleph, when changin textdir outside a box, the textdir inside the box
is not changed. For example:
\textdir TRT
\setbox0 = \hbox{textdir: \the\textdir , boxdir: \the\boxdir0}
\box0
\bye
In Aleph, bot will remain TLT. However, in Omega textdir inside the box
will get updated to TRT as well. IMO, Omega behaviour makes more sense.
The current behaviour just make things more complex. I spent several
hours trying to debug why in the following latex example, the second
section number is misplaced:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\textdir TRT\pardir TRT
\section{Test}
\end{document}
I turned out that latex buts section number inside an hbox, which is TLT
here.
i can imagine it being configurable behaviour, something
\inherittextdir=0/1 because there are quite some places in
macropackages where boxing is used in a way that even in rtl assumes ltr
packing; explicitly making all these boxes TLT then is a lot of work
Hans
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