As noted in the release notes direction support now works in math which is a good thing but a side effect seems to be that beginL endL nodes are added to every math list
\tracingoutput1 \tracingonline1 $a$ \bye generates ..\hbox(4.30554+0.0)x469.75499, glue set 444.4691fil ...\hbox(0.0+0.0)x20.0 ...\mathon ...\beginL ...\teni a ...\endL ...etc. ..\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fill .\glue(\baselineskip) 17.55556 This seems quite an obtrusive change for documents not using explicit directionality (and causes 77 tests in the latex regression test suite to fail in 2015 pretest) Would it be possible for the automatic beginL node _not_ to be added if the current context was already left to right? David -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
