Re: \framed (and others) don't honor directional switches

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:08:48 -0600, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
>> you can comment this in cont-new.mkiv
>>  % \def\pagedir{\expandafter\gobblethreearguments}
>> % \def\bodydir{\expandafter\gobblethreearguments}
>>  i'm trying to figure out what dirs make sense (even when all are 
>> enabled the alignment is no 100% ok; for instance, why should bodydir 
>> influence textdir and pardir (i.e. when i would expect the content to 
>> be rl independent of page/bodydir
>>  (we need some higher level interface and not these low level *dir 
>> commands)
> 
> Indeed. We may also need Taco's help; he's about the only one I know who 
> precisely understands the distinction between \pardir and \bodydir. I 
> did some extensive testing on this nearly two years ago and could hardly 
> make sense of it. The user should never have to touch \pardir or 
> \bodydir and we need a higher level command. Not sure if the same will 
> work at the macro level.
> 
> I'll search for Taco's old detailed explanations of these two and 
> forward them to you and Khalid.

there has been changes (consistency cleasups) to the engine so you might 
want to run some tests again; first we need to be absolutely sure of the 
engine backend does things right (i.e. as we expect)

Hans



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