I was so pleased that the polyglossia package started supporting more
languages, including Coptic. But when I try to invoke it with \textcoptic{}
or the coptic environment, it typesets right-to-left, i.e. backwards.
Interestingly, the problem doesn't seem to exist if \textcoptic{} is not
invoked. Is there a reason for this, or was there a step I missed?
Here is the text of the example file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode,xltxtra}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{coptic}
\setmainfont{Antinoou}
\newfontfamily\copticfont{Antinoou}
\begin{document}
Here is some English text.
\bigskip
And now for the Coptic:
ⲛⲁⲉⲓ ⲛⲉ ⲛ̅ϣⲁϫⲉ ⲉⲑⲏⲡ ⲉⲛⲧ-ⲁ-ⲓ̅ⲥ̅
\textcoptic{ⲛⲁⲉⲓ ⲛⲉ ⲛ̅ϣⲁϫⲉ ⲉⲑⲏⲡ ⲉⲛⲧ-ⲁ-ⲓ̅ⲥ̅}
\begin{coptic}
ⲛⲁⲉⲓ ⲛⲉ ⲛ̅ϣⲁϫⲉ ⲉⲑⲏⲡ ⲉⲛⲧ-ⲁ-ⲓ̅ⲥ̅
\end{coptic}
\end{document}
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