On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:17:19PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Dekel> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:37:51PM -0400, Amir Karger wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:26:21PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On
> >> Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:34:05PM +0100, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
> >> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Jean-Marc
> >> Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > > 3. The \L and \R commands for Hebrew
> >> files. > - \L{text} is a shortcut to
> >> \foreignlanguage{english}{text} > - \R{text} is a shortcut to
> >> \foreignlanguage{hebrew}{text}
> >>
> >> But \L and \R may mean different things in non-Hebrew files, right?
>
> Dekel> So these command should be handled only when Hebrew was one of
> Dekel> the languages in the optional argument to \documentclass (or as
> Dekel> argument to babel).
>
> Do you mean these commands are only for hebrew, or do they work also
> for other RtL languages like arabic?
Yes, if the document in an English-Arabic document, then
\L{text} = \foreignlanguage{english}{text}
\R{text} = \foreignlanguage{arabic}{text}
