Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:58:21 -0600, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> i'm wondering ... why do we need pagedir and bodydir?
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> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/omega/
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> \pagedir The direction for pages (\shipout).
> \bodydir The direction for vboxes, including the main body of text.
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> Think of footnote numerals etc. IIRC: Without \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT the
> footnote numerals will appear on the left despite \pardir and \textdir.
>
> I still don't completely _separately_ understand \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT,
> but together they seem to make sense to me. Taco once started explainig
> these two to Hans and I a few months back but that thread was never
> completed... I'll look up where we left things off.
among the pending issues was 'where do we explicitly need to set it and
when do we need to compensate for it'
for some reason inserts (the figure) are sensitive to it and it might be
some interference as well as a missing explicit dir reversal
[omega provides these mechanisms but i think that there was never a full
blown macro package using them, i.e. mixed direction support and such;
there might be many places where we need to add dir-checking code to
context; a few places already have it]
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