On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:42:21PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Does XeLaTeX implement the Unicode BiDi algorithm?
Short answer: no. Long answer: XeTeX, more or less, breaks words at spaces or other non-character material (spaces in TeX are converted to the so called glue, so are not handled as characters) and applies the Unicode BiDi algorithm to each word separately, which effectively means it is just used to determine the direction of the individual word. > If so, why isn't it working (I can provide a TeX sample)? If not, > does anyone have any suggestions for workarounds -- other than > implementing the BiDi algorithm myself and adding explicit \RL and \LR > commands? I think sample documents (minimal working example) are needed for any useful suggestion. Regards, Khaled -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
