[XeTeX] New version of xetex

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 07:25:39PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:24:39PM +1000, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks, fixed.
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks. I will try that. I know that in the new algorithm, \beginR,
> > \beginL, \endR, and \endL are also allowed in math mode. But consider this
> > minimal document
> > 
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \begin{document}
> > \hbox{\beginR\vbox{%
> > $$1+2=3$$
> > }\endR}
> > \end{document}
> > 
> > The display math will be typeset RTL. Is there any switch that allows this
> > to not happen? in etex, display math was always LTR but if there is some
> > switch to turn this on/off, it would be great.
> 
> So far there is not, but I'm still figuring what is the best option
> here, may be a new primitive, say, \XeTeXmathdirection, with the values
> 0 meaning math is always LTR (the default) and 1 meaning math respects
> the surrounding text direction?

Looking more closely, it seems I misidentified the issue. TeX-XeT resets
the direction before inline and display math, so math is always LTR, but
it seems that there is a bug that prevents this from happening in your
example, I'll check that.

In XeTeX we additionally allow the direction primitives in math mode so
that one can manually override the default. I still think
\XeTeXmathdirection primitive is needed to allow for document wide RTL
math, but this is a different issue.

Regards,
Khaled