On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:03:46PM +1000, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > Today I compiled luatex from trunk and the bugs with RTL mode are fixed. I > would like to thank Taco and other members of the luatex team from the bottom > of my heart. But the issue that I reported about beamer with Warsaw theme, > still exists, hopefully that will get fixed soon. I just wanted to ask you > something and that is: > > "with luatex having RTL tables is quite easy because I could have \pagedir TRT > and automatically tables becomes RTL. but sometimes we actually are writing > LTR > and we need to have a section which takes about say 2/3 of the page and it is > RTL. So having \pagedir TRT does not make sense in this case. Is there any > primitive avaliable in LuaTeX that makes tabular RTL? I can do it with macros > like what I have done in XeTeX but I think having a primitive that makes > tabular RTL would help a lot. What do you think?"
You can switch page and body dir in the middle of the page, this works for me: Page dir is: \the\pagedir\ and body dir is \the\bodydir.\par \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT Page dir is: \the\pagedir\ and body dir is \the\bodydir. \bye But I don't know if this is supported behaviour. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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