Questions tagged [bidi]

{bidi} is about issues related to bidirectional TeXing, that is, typesetting of text with two text directionalities, right-to-left and left-to-right.

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Typesetting alternating text left to right and right to left

Out of curiosity: Can I typeset alternating from line to line left to right and right to left? Hello, I actually txet elttil a ma with no meaning
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xelatex: bidi problems with RTL character placing

I'm preparing a text on how bidirectional formatting works and using xelatex for that. For this I need to put RTL characters exactly as they are placed in the text, with disabled bidi processing, and my results are so far frustrating. Here's an…
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Right to Left in LaTeX

Is there a way to typeset with both RTL and LTR languages in the same LaTeX document, without use XeTeX? All the solutions I have seen (bidi, polyglossia, etc) require XeTeX. Basically, I make using \fbox to layout some text. I want the first box to…
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clipbox with bidi

this is my code, compiled by xelatex: \documentclass{book} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{trimclip} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{hebrew} \setotherlanguage{english} \newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{Bitstream Vera…
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How to render "-" if is in a right-to-left script?

There is a volume of the Appendix of the amazing Print Wikipedia publication which lists contributors to Wikipedia. The first contributor listed in this particular volume is "Xholierthanthou". The last contributor's name is in Arabic…
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