On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 05:20:23PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > Hello, > > > >> Is this a bug, feature, or am I missing > >> some thing? > > > > You're not missing anything, it's kind of a misfeature because the > > Bidi_Mirrored property is not taken in account by ConTeXt (yet). > > Happily enough, it's one of the things I'm sponsored by Google to > > implement as a part of my Summer of Code project > > (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/tex/appinfo.html?csaid=8BC22C657B7F0D0E) > > -- of course the project is more general and there is a part on > > bidirectional behaviour, but I didn't get to it yet. In this case, I > > guess the mirroring property should be added to char-def.lua and handled > > accordingly; contrary to XeTeX, LuaTeX doesn't know it intrinsically, so > > it has to be dealt with at the ConTeXt level. > > this morning i added that info to the main table, but i'm still > pondering about how to use if properly ... in tex normally there are > explicit mode switches (in the source of the document) which gives > ultimate control; there's also the issue of these pardir etc changes > that then need to be injected into the node list; > > anyhow, i'll look into it, but whatever solution i come up with, it has > to be under user control; i don't want hard coded automatisms that then > are hard to bypass (especially implicid properties can result in messy > situations, unicode math is a candidate for that)
Giving the user more control is good idea, as long as the correct behaviour is one of the options. Regards, Khaled > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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