From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41699 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:36:18 +0200 Message-ID: <48557D42.4070000@wxs.nl> References: <20080609012128.GA8011@khaled-laptop> <484D9BB9.1020601@wxs.nl> <20080613215227.GA13603@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213562285 28125 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2008 20:38:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:38:05 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jun 15 22:38:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K7yzs-0007qb-FI for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:38:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC871FCC6; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:37:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21518-01-2; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:37:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B53C1FBFB; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:37:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2901FCA1 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:37:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19690-02-7 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:36:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE8611FC6A for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:36:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.124] (unverified [10.100.1.124]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 12965-1840426 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:36:20 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <20080613215227.GA13603@khaled-laptop> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.124 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41699 Archived-At: Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >> Khaled Hosny wrote: >>> Luatex does not mirror characters that has a Bidi_Mirrored property when >>> the text direction is set to RTL (TRT in Aleph), according to >>> http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Mirroring, the different types of >>> parenthesis that has Bidi_Mirrored property should be mirreored in RTL >>> mode, but this isn't what I get. Is this a bug, feature, or am I missing >>> some thing? >> experimental in the beta >> >> \setcharactermirroring[1] > > It does work perfectly with unidirectional texts (RTL or LTR), but when > mixing bi-directional text, like Arabic text between brackets inside > English line, the closing bracket takes the direction of the embedded > text not the main line. > See the attached example. i need to figure out what the subtypes are of the direction nodes i suggest that you and idris cook up a set of test files that can serve as benchmark, preferably something organized (arabtest-whatever) and such; eventually these can go into the regression test machinery Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________