[XeTeX] Multi directional paragraphs

[Vafa Khalighi]

It is beacuse you have a different kind of definition with quote. Once you
set up right and left skips you can not change them. For example, look at
bidi manual and read the section that has to do with RTLitems and LTRitems
environment. A similar thing can be done with verse.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Arash Zeini <arash.zeini at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> > I dont really consider this a bug. With verse environment, you set right
> > and left skips and so if it is already LTR, you have set your right and
> > left skips for LTR and putting \setRTL would not change right and left
> > skip because they already have been set. See the attached document. I
> > think this is the right way to use it. What do you think?
>
> Well, if you look at my PDF again, you will see a difference between my
> example and yours. In your case the result is correct but not in my case. I
> have looked at it again and I get the correct result if I use your syntax:
>
> \setRTL
> \begin{verse}
>        ...
> \end{verse}
>
> But not, if I use:
>
> \begin{verse}
>        ...
>
>        \setRTL ...
> \end{verse}
>
> With the quote environment, however, I already get the correct result with
> the
> second type of syntax. If I am not mistaken, having one set of
> \begin{verse}
> ... \end{verse} helps me reduce some vertical space. This is also important
> while working with the source because I like to keep one set of quotations
> inside one pair of commands.
>
> I think this is a bug. Could you please look at it again?
>
> Thanks,
> Arash
>
>
>
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