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.
sure, but we might as well deal with them in a special r-l aware mode
(probably easier)
Hans
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