Re: right to left direction for itemize columns

[Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com>]

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Dear Otared,

Your example works perfectly fine for me using version: 2016.04.13 16:46.
Perhaps, you're using an older version of CONTEXT.  There was a patch in
February enabling this.  See the output of my run attached.

—Hossein

P.S.  My name is Mohammad *Hossein*, not Mohammad Reza :)



On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mohammad Reza,
>
> I tried your example, but it seems to me that the way the columns are
> presented when writing Right-to-Left is still incorrect. In the following
> example one should have the column containing the lines « First » and «
> Second » to the right of the column containing « Third » and « Fourth ».
>
> I don’t know if there is already a way to tell ConTeXt to do it in the
> right way, or Hans has to look into the righttoleft mechanism.
> The same issue appears in the table mechanism.
>
> By the way, the option
> [direction=reverse]
> seems to have no effect at all in Right-to-Left environment.
>
> %%% begin example-RtoL-reverse.tex
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \setmainfont[ALM Fixed][features=arabic,range=arabic]
>
> \setupdirections[bidi=global,method=two]
> \setupalign[righttoleft]
>
> \starttext
> آزمایش نوشتن از راست به چپ
>
> \startitemize[columns,two][direction=reverse]
> \item First
> \item Second
> \item Third
> \item Fourth
> \stopitemize
>
> آزمایش نوشتن از راست به چپ
> \startitemize[columns,two][direction=reverse]
>
> \startitem
> یک
> \stopitem
>
> \startitem
> دو
> \stopitem
>
> \startitem
> سه
> \stopitem
>
>
> \startitem
> چهار
> \stopitem
> \stopitemize
> \stoptext
> %%% end example-RtoL-reverse.tex
>
> Best regards: OK
>
> On 27 Apr 2016, at 23:22, Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I actually figured out that one can use the following:
>
> \startitemize[columns,two][direction=reverse]
> \item first
> \item second
> \item third
> \stopitemize
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Mohammad Hossein Bateni <
> bateni@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wolfgang,
>>
>> Did you imply in the email below that a new key or something was added to
>> \startitemize setups?  I mean, using \setupmixedcolumns works fine but is
>> it possible to do this in each \startitemize individually?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hossein
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
>> schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bou Salim <salimcollo7@gmail.com>
>>> 21. Februar 2016 um 13:26
>>> I have posted  a question in tex stack exchangeCustomize right to left
>>> list in context
>>> <http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/294627/customize-right-to-left-list-in-context/294631?noredirect=1#comment713701_294631>
>>> My aim is to obtain right to left  items arranged  in  multi-column, if
>>> I use
>>> \startitemize [s,columns,three] [margin=1em]
>>> the result is three column where first column start from left side of
>>> page, but I want it to start from right side of page.
>>>
>>> I can use \startcolumns[direction=left]\startitemize \item First \item
>>> Second \item Third \stopitemize \stopcolumns
>>> but I think it look better if there is a key direction=left for the
>>> \startitemize environment such as used in columns environment.
>>>
>>> The underlying columns mechanism has a reverse option for the direction
>>> key. I sent a patch to the dev list which allows a direst setting of the
>>> direction value with the \startitemize command.
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \startitemize[columns,three]
>>> \dorecurse{9}{\item Entry \recurselevel}
>>> \stopitemize
>>>
>>> \blank[3*line]
>>>
>>> \setupmixedcolumns[itemgroupcolumns][direction=reverse]
>>>
>>> \startitemize[columns,three]
>>> \dorecurse{9}{\item Entry \recurselevel}
>>> \stopitemize
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> Wolfgang
>>>
>>>
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