On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:17:25PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> a better example of the mess we're dealing with:
>
> \starttext
>
> \pagedir TRT \bodydir TRT \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \startTEXpage \input  
> tufte \stopTEXpage
> \pagedir TLT \bodydir TRT \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \startTEXpage \input  
> tufte \stopTEXpage
> \pagedir TRT \bodydir TLT \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \startTEXpage \input  
> tufte \stopTEXpage
> \pagedir TLT \bodydir TLT \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \startTEXpage \input  
> tufte \stopTEXpage
>
> \stoptext

Thanks for the example, I think I got your point. From my understanding,
I think text and paragraph direction should be only controlled by
\textdir and \pardir respectively, whatever \pagedir or \bodydir are.
Indeed, I don't see why \bodydir would influence the text direction
inside boxes.

Regards,
 Khaled


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