From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5203 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: right-to-left typesetting Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:54:42 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010806104952.02ac83c8@server-1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395806 32049 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:56:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Efraim Yawitz In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5203 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5203 At 09:34 AM 8/5/2001 +0300, Efraim Yawitz wrote: >Hi, > >Does anyone have any experience with right-to-left typesetting with >ConTeXt? etex has primitives \beginR, \endR, \beginL, \endL which are for >this purpose, but how can I use them in ConTeXt? Just as an experiment, I >put some \everypar and \everyhbox statements into an input file and got >some pretty nice results (reversed paragraphs and columns) along with a >lot of error messages about 'missing \endR'. Of course, it's still pretty >crude (page numbers reversed, for example), and I know this is not the way >to do it? Is there a 'way to do it' already implemented, or could the >ConTeXt gurus add something? It doesn't sound like a lot of extra code. There are two files that run on top of arabtex, \setupbodyfont[heb] will give you \starthebrew .. \stophebrew another way is Omega, but this is not yet stable, is under reconstruction, etc. There is a some crude low level awareness of direction, but o have to pop that into the hebrew handler. [one has for instance to reverse a couple of things] With regards to the otr, columns already can go right -> left, and more will follow; the more precise the demands are written down, the better i can act upon them, i have to pick up the chinese / farsi / hebrew thread anyway -) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------