> I get the idea. I suppose what confuses me is that this whole thing works
> in
> the quote environment but not in verse. They both define a narrower text
> width. The only difference between the two environments, at least from a
> user's POV, is the hanging indent or generally the way they format
> paragraphs,
> just as there are some differences between the quote and quotation
> environments.
> So, do I understand it correctly, that quote and verse use entirely
> different
> mechanisms that prevent the same result in RTL mode? I guess I am missing
> the
> finer point behind this and I admit that I have never looked at the code to
> see what is happening behind the scenes.
>
>
quote is very simple:
\newenvironment{quote}%
{\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item[]}%
{\endlist}
so it actually makes right and leftskips same and it does not matter whether
you are in RTL or LTR, both right and left skips have the same value.
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