Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:58:21 -0600, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i'm wondering ... why do we need pagedir and bodydir? > > ========= > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/omega/ > > \pagedir The direction for pages (\shipout). > \bodydir The direction for vboxes, including the main body of text. > ========= > > Think of footnote numerals etc. IIRC: Without \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT the > footnote numerals will appear on the left despite \pardir and \textdir.
sure, but we might as well deal with them in a special r-l aware mode (probably easier) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________