On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:01:28AM +0000, Joseph Wright wrote: > On 07/12/2012 13:17, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > Now, if I understand \left and \rightskip correctly, it seems like > > something one wants to mirror with directional change, otherwise one > > would want to explicitly adapt styles depending on text > > directionality, which is not something I really like (especially > > when dealing with something like LaTeX styles that are PITA to > > modify). > > I'm not sure that follows at an engine level (LaTeX2e's deficiencies are > a different matter). If you think about sitting down with a piece of > paper to design a layout, the text direction does not affect which side > of the paper is the left, and therefore a design description may well > refer to 'left' and 'right' of the page whether the dominant direction > is LTR or RTL.
I can't what a layout used for both RTL and LTR would use an absolute left and right values for. One of the things I liked about Omega model is the little changes needed to adapt any existing style to RTL. > > In general the layout in right to left settings is usually an identical > > mirror of left to right one (including the position of odd and even > > pages). > > That's only true if you are assuming you are producing both LTR and RTL > documents from one design spec: seems unlikely. This is how my multi-lingual documents are produced :) Regards, Khaled
