On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 06:11:57PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> As to the original problem:
> 
> \textdir TRT
> \input epsf
> 
> \epsfbox{fig.eps}\input knuth
> 
> \bye
> 
> I don't think this is an omega/aleph/luatex bug, but rather that epsf.tex  
> does not take the global direction change into account. It seems that, for  
> any figure mechanism in TeX, the coordinates of the figure need to be  
> vertically reversed when
> \pagedir TRT \bodydir TRT
> in effect.

I think I got the idea now (and this explains why the frame gets right).

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