Re: XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:54 PM, J.A.J. Pater wrote:
>> My guess was incorrect.
>> I copy-pasted the underneath text into my test file and I got good results.
>> No tXeTnoC.
>> So here it just works like a charm.
> 
> I'm sorry. I accidentally commented out \setcharactermirroring[1]
> while switching between XeTeX and LuaTeX. So this time just for fun:
> XeTeX doesn't know textdir command, so I commented out both textdir
> and setcharactermirroring. And then you get XtEConT with XeTeX :) :)
> :)

xetex uses the etex bidi method (\beginL .. \endL and such)

> I used the wrong set of direction-switching commands, though it's
> still interesting that XeTeX and LuaTeX both accept input, but
> generate completely different results. (\pardir without \textdir has
> no influence in mkiv while it changes word stacking direction in
> XeTeX.)

well, since they both use different rl machinery it can never be the same;

Hans

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