Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

2013-12-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:42:21PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Does XeLaTeX implement the Unicode BiDi algorithm? Short answer: no. I think sample documents (minimal working example) are needed for any useful

Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

2013-12-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
The goal is to match the Unicode bidi algorithm, because that is how the web page displays and thus how the original author saw the text as they wrote. Guessing the proper language tag to use is likely infeasible; note that the example given contains titles in Turkish as well as English. The

Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

2013-12-04 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2013/12/4 C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net: The goal is to match the Unicode bidi algorithm, because that is how the web page displays and thus how the original author saw the text as they wrote. Guessing the proper language tag to use is likely infeasible; note that the example given

Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

2013-12-04 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Well first step is implementing and providing ways of using the bidi alg and its changes in Unicode 6.3, especially being able to leverage off bidi isolation. Andrew On 4 December 2013 20:07, Keith J. Schultz schul...@uni-trier.de wrote: Hi Scott, Am 03.12.2013 um 19:42 schrieb C. Scott

Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

2013-12-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 12:31:58AM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:42:21PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Does XeLaTeX implement the Unicode BiDi algorithm? Short answer: no. I think

Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

2013-12-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:50:05PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2013/12/4 C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net: 3) Arabic comma instead of English comma in citation [23]. (in both web and XeLaTeX output) The engine cannot recognize the context if the language is not tagged, the comma will