From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43676 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?B?SWRyaXMgU2FtYXdpIEhhbWlkINin2K/YsdmK2LMg2LPZhdin2YjZiiDYrQ==?= =?utf-8?B?2KfZhdiv?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Figures are misplaced with \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:17:39 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <20080902183350.GA14798@khaled-laptop> <48BDB6FD.50404@wxs.nl> 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 1220393997 30761 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2008 22:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:19:57 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 03 00:20:50 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 1KaeEu-0006V7-Si for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:20:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B2F1FD76; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:19:39 +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 29733-01-3; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:18:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7ED1FD4A; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:18:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7211FD4A for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:18:32 +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 27774-03-4 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:17:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F2161FB60 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:17:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 22943 invoked by uid 1006); 2 Sep 2008 22:17:50 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(0.1/100.0):. Processed in 0.945944 secs); 02 Sep 2008 22:17:50 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.18) by -v with SMTP; 2 Sep 2008 22:17:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18201 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2008 22:17:47 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO your-b27fb1c401) (ishamid@75.104.82.252) by -v with SMTP; 2 Sep 2008 22:17:47 -0000 In-Reply-To: <48BDB6FD.50404@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.50 (Win32) 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:43676 Archived-At: On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:58:21 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote: > i'm wondering ... why do we need pagedir and bodydir? ========= http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/omega/ \pagedir The direction for pages (\shipout). \bodydir The direction for vboxes, including the main body of text. ========= Think of footnote numerals etc. IIRC: Without \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT the footnote numerals will appear on the left despite \pardir and \textdir. I still don't completely _separately_ understand \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT, but together they seem to make sense to me. Taco once started explainig these two to Hans and I a few months back but that thread was never completed... I'll look up where we left things off. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________