2013/12/4 C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:42:21PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: >>> Does XeLaTeX implement the Unicode BiDi algorithm? >> >> Short answer: no. >> >> I think sample documents (minimal working example) are needed for any >> useful suggestion. > > > Attached are the first 23 references from > https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84#.D9.85.D8.B5.D8.A7.D8.AF.D8.B1 > (the Arabic wikipedia article on Istanbul), as generated by my XeLaTeX > formatter. > > Things to notice: > 1) Unicode BiDi algorithm at work in web version in places like > citation [1], "Statistics of the 2010 Turkey census". XeLaTeX renders > this backwards. > 2) Broken italic for arabic in GNU freefont in citation [2]. > (straightforward to fix)
GNU FreeSerif does not contain arabic in the italic shape, only regular and bold is supported. > 3) Arabic comma instead of English comma in citation [23]. (in both > web and XeLaTeX output) > The engine cannot recognize the context if the language is not tagged, the comma will always be displayed using the default language. > Item #1 is the one I'd really appreciate suggestions for fixing. > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
