On 05/12/2012 00:45, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > Yes, the limitations of TeX--XeT are: > > * Only four primitives \beginR \endR, \beginL \endL are provided which makes > typesetting RTL documents very hard and complicated. > * The primitives above only work in horizontal mode. > * No way to typeset RTL tabular, the only approach is to put tabular inside > an > RTL box which itself introduces lots of problems. > * \special do not work properly in RTL mode. > * There is no way to change the direction of boxes and even if you do by > trick, the order of TOC or anything that has to do with \write at shipout > time gets wrong. > * left/right skips do not get reversed in RTL, so you have to replace them > with each other and this is not always the case, e.g. \vbox inside \hbox > * \parshape is not reversed in RTL mode so you have to do some macro > programming and this is not always the case, e.g, \vbox inside \hbox > * No tool for controlling equation number; it only provides > \predisplaydirection which is buggy in RTL. > * ....
Very useful list :-) (I knew some of these, but it's nice to have them collected up.) -- Joseph Wright -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
