Re: AW: Markdown for a RTL text direction blockquote

[Albert Krewinkel <albert+pandoc-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org>]

John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Does anyone out there know about RTL support in LaTeX?

I tried to read up on it, but didn't really get any smarter. The only
interesting thing I came across is this quote from the babel manual:

> No macros to select the writing direction are provided, either –
> writing direction is intrinsic to each script and therefore it is best
> set by the language (which can be a dummy one). Furthermore, there are
> in fact two right-to-left modes, depending on the language, which
> differ in the way ‘weak’ numeric characters are ordered (eg, Arabic
> %123 vs Hebrew 123%).

From the sound of it, defining a placeholder languages could be an
option to select direction.

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