Guenter Milde wrote:
> If I understand right,
>
> babel converts the input ")siht ekil(" to "(like this)"
>
> while
>
> xelatex+polyglossia converts "(siht ekil)" to "(like this)".
Yes [for Hebrew, for that matter. In Arabic, the case is different. This is
why we have )siht( in the LyX source for Hebrew and (siht) for Arabic.]
> IMO, this is a polyglossia feature. It may be regarded as a regression, if
> we "fix" it to behave like babel:
>
> However, the applied patch seems to do exactly this. Whether it is a
> "fix" or a "regression" depends on the use case.
>
> + documents written for babel also work with polyglossia,
> - text pasted from other applications now fails with both, babel and
> polyglossia.
>
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
The patch does not touch the input (neither the input method nor the
representation in the LyX source and window), we just adapt the output if we
output to LaTeX with polyglossia. So I do not think anything will change
(except the output with polyglossia will be correct).
Jürgen
