Re: AW: Markdown for a RTL text direction blockquote

[Lyndon Drake <isenguard-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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To me there are two issues:

- one is that it's quite legitimate to do dir=rtl for e.g. HTML as the 
intended output, and this probably shouldn't generate LaTeX code that will 
fail in LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX given those are the best LaTeX engines to use 
for bidi text

- the other is that Babel really doesn't have a way to change text 
direction, so the only way to do this in a babel-compliant way is to define 
a dummy language. I could potentially ask the babel maintainer for help 
doing this, as they've been very helpful to me in the past. An alternative 
would be to have dummy definitions of the macros that pandoc generates 
LaTeX calls to for dir=rtl so that at least it would all then fail silently.

For my own use I can just specify the actual language but I think it would 
make sense to avoid being able to generate error-producing LaTeX code?

On Monday, 25 April 2022 at 08:52:09 UTC+12 Albert Krewinkel wrote:

>
> John MacFarlane <j...-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.
>
> -- 
> Albert Krewinkel
> GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124
>

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