2013/12/4 C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>: > The goal is to match the Unicode bidi algorithm, because that is how the web > page displays and thus how the original author saw the text as they wrote. > Guessing the proper language tag to use is likely infeasible; note that the > example given contains titles in Turkish as well as English. The safest > option is probably to treat embedded LTR text in an RTL context as 'exotic' > and not to attempt hyphenation. > > I've heard it said that LuaTeX has "better bidi support". What does that > mean, exactly? Should I be considering switching? > --scott > LuaTeX offers various features for the arabic script but support of indic scripts is missing. If you wish to typeset the texts from Hindi Wikipedia, LuaTeX cannot be used.
> On Dec 4, 2013 4:08 AM, "Keith J. Schultz" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Scott, >> >> Am 03.12.2013 um 19:42 schrieb C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>: >> >> > >> > But in the XeLaTeX/polyglossia/bidi output, the "soft space" weak >> > directionality of the Unicode BiDi algorithm doesn't seem to be >> > honored (or implemented?) and so the English article titles appear >> > with the individual words in RTL order, which is a mess. Manually >> > tagging the language of the article title is probably the Right thing, >> > but infeasible for the entire wikipedia. >> Well, without proper tagging you can not expect any system to >> work properly or as expected! >> For most entries a simple script should do the trick to add the >> language tags to the article titles. >> >> Hope this helps >> regards >> Keith. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > 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
