On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:31:38AM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:49:31PM +0330, Mehdi Omidali wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I want to use context+xetex for right-to-left typesetting and need to
> > know if it is possible to use the command \pagedir TRT in this
> > situation. (I tested that apparently only \pardir TRT is active).
> > If the answer of the above question is negative I would like to know
> > how can I change numbering direction of sections, formulas, etc.
> > Thanks
> 
> \pardir \textdir etc. are LuaTeX specific, it seems that CpnTeXt
> emulates \textdir TRT for XeTeX/e-TeX, dunno how to set par direction to
> RTL in XeTeX though, may be ConTeXt should emulate \pardir as well or
> may be there is some way to do this that I'm not aware of.

Sorry I got confused, \pardir is what we have, actually you don't need
\textdir with XeTeX since it will render individual Arabic words from
right to left correctly and automatically.


Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team