On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 07:34:03PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Hi Khaled, > > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:52:27 -0600, Khaled Hosny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>> experimental in the beta >>> >>> \setcharactermirroring[1] >> >> It does work perfectly with unidirectional texts (RTL or LTR), but when >> mixing bi-directional text, like Arabic text between brackets inside >> English line, the closing bracket takes the direction of the embedded >> text not the main line. >> See the attached example. > > I just worked with this, and made some symmetrical definitions: see the > attached modified files. > > \setcharactermirroring[0,1] works in both uni- and bi-directional text -- > note that each bracketpair is inside of its respective directional > context.
Thanks for the fix, this makes it more organized indeed. > > However, for the FIRST occurence of a bracket-pair in a bidi paragraph it > does not behave as expected. > > It may be that the second invocation of \setcharactermirroring does not > immediately override the last. Maybe we need a \flush or > \clearsetcharactermirroring command? I'm new at TeX/ConTeXt, all what I can do is to confirm that I'm getting the same output as yours. Regards, Khaled > > Best wishes > Idris > > -- > Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief > International Journal of Shi`i Studies > Department of Philosophy > Colorado State University > Fort Collins, CO 80523 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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