{right-to-left} is about authoring and compiling Right-to-Left content (mostly in languages such as Farsi, Arabic or Hebrew) with (La)TeX. A popular package is {bidi}.
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Typesetting Right-to-Left math
UPDATE:
I've managed to produce something that is aesthetically correct, however with a lot of "hardcoding" and trial and error to manually measure my spaces. Not to mention that I have to write my ...
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IDE / Best known method for writing Hebrew documents with LaTeX
I usually use LyX to prepare lecture notes, course summaries, etc.
The reason I use LyX and not LaTex directly is twofold -
I usually need to type in real time - summing a lecture. I think for this ...
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hyperref links break with babel + hebrew (or right-to-left language)
It's time for Eyal's babel + Hebrew incompatibility of the week. And this time: hyperref... :-(
Basically, you can't get links with right-to-left text. It's about the direction rather than the ...
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Beamer XeTeX Right to Left
I am preparing Farsi slides in beamer which is a right to left language just like Hebrew. I have problems in the presentation which I briefly discuss:
The TOC is left to right:
The itemize can be ...
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Right-to-left text in LaTeX - reversed numbers and parentheses
Finally I got my Hebrew working on LaTeX.
Everything's working great except for two issues - numbers and parentheses. Numbers are written the other way around (one hundred would be written 001), and ...
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A tool for creating a dictionary with right-to-left script
I'm trying to typeset a dictionnary, using Arabic script. I would like to create a list of words in three columns, with Arabic word in right column aligned to the right, its Polish translation aligned ...
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putting a box around each line of text in a paragraph
In my environment I would like to automatically make a box around each individual line of text in a paragraph so that I can operate on each line. I think this should really be done in LaTeX rather ...
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How to change the page number from even to odd while keeping the page as verso?
I'm writing a two-sided document with a binding margin. For certain reasons, I need to change the page number at some point, so what used to be an even-numbered page is now odd-numbered. This makes ...
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Alignment of page numbers in table of contents
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\section{test}
\newpage
\setcounter{page}{22}
\section{introduction}
\newpage
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Placing \section, \subsection in the right margin of an RTL document
Rather than the default placing of \section and \subsection on their own line, I'd like to place them on the right margin (in a Right To Left document).
My current usage looks like this:
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Sample files of LTR text on left and RTL text on right
I am looking for sample files with mix LTR and RTL texts where each occupy their respective side of the page on each line.
In addition I want the ability to indent odd/even lines by different ...
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Hebrew vs. German/English translation side-by-side
I am having the following problem: I have Hebrew texts and want to put translations (and other information) right next to it in a nice way. (Previously I used the old Nisus Writer for Mac which for ...
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Numbers, punctuation and parenthesis reversed in RTL
Contrary to my belief and to what's shown here, the above are coming up reversed for me:
I've seen this happen in other places too (enumerations off the top of my head), but these are the most ...
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How do I right-align the last line of a justified paragraph?
I want to wrap around text in a table cell; therefore I use the p option in the definition of tabular. However, I'm writing in Hebrew, so it aligns the last line to the left, instead of to the right. ...
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babel \L command reverses letters, inserts Ł symbol
It's time for Eyal's babel+Hebrew (or right-to-left) incompatibility of the week; and this time, it's hyperref again.
If you have:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}
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Some problems using LyX RTL with equations
I'm really new to the whole LyX(2.0.5.1) thing I'm usually using LibreOffice Writer and it's Latex like "formulas".
But I've heard so many good things about LyX, so I've decided to give it a try but ...
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Type several columns using right-to-left language
I want type Farsi (this language is right-to-left) in several columns.
How do I start the contents from the first column to the right?
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The quickindex option is not working with xepersian package
I have installed TeXLive 2010 on Ubuntu 10.10,
when I try to compile a LaTeX file such as:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage[Kashida,quickindex]{xepersian}
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TeX Editor for Arabic language? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
LaTeX Editors/IDEs
Typesetting a document using Arabic script
I'm Arab and use TeX Live 2012. I have a problem with TeXworks: It doesn't support right-to-left (rtl) ...
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Inserting RTL text in verbatim environment
How I can insert Persian text in verbatim environment when using XePersin package
( v11.138, 2012/05/03). Following code dose not work:
\begin{verbatim}
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD ...
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RTL Refrences in XePersian package
In my Persian paper all references are in Latin script.
How I can insert references (Bibliography) RTL in XePersian,
and how I can convert digits in URLs to west Arabic.
MWE:
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LTR sequences within RTL text - alternative to cumbersome markup?
I am writing a book in Persian that is full of text in Latin scripts scattered all over book.
I have to wrap every Latin script with \lt{} to guide xetex to align words from left to right. It's ...
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RTL captions with newfloat?
Is it that the float package begins to show its age? I cannot get it to work right with XeLaTeX. Here is an example:
\documentclass{article} % compile with xelatex
\usepackage{float}
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bidi's undefined environments in (my) LuaLaTeX system
I typeset Arabic text with LuaLaTeX. I am using the following definitions and it works nicely:
\newcommand{\arabtext}[1] % Arabic inside LTR
{\bgroup\luatextextdir TRT\arabicfont #1\egroup}
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Problem with persian-bib package [closed]
I have a document where the main language should be English with only some Arabic text.
In my references I have English as well as Arabic references.
The main direction of the document should be from ...
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Typesetting documents that are a mix of Arabic and Latin script without annoying markup
How can I insert LTR script directly within RTL text without cumbersome markup? (consider a Language learning book. )
What is most clean method to write following texts?
Aa bb cc ااا ببب تتت dd ee ...
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Putting Left-to-right reference in right-to-left document in XeLatex using BibTex
The whole document in XeLatex is in a right-to-left language, but all the references are in English. I want those references to be left-to-right.
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Dashes and hyphens in Hebrew
I'm trying to use hyphens in a Hebrew document, but they do not appear in the resulting file. I've created this example to test the error. It seems only the unicode en-dash letter renders correctly ...
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RTL theorems with ntheorem and xetex have separator in wrong place
(This is a split-off from another RTL ntheorem issue.)
When you have a theorem in RTL language text (e.g. Hebrew), using XeTeX+polyglossia(+bidi)+ntheorem, the theorem separator comes out before, ...
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\theoremindent adds space to left side when used with RTL languages
Trying to use ntheorem's \theoremindent seems to indent the left side rather than the right side when used with polyglossia and right-to-left languages:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ntheorem}
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Invalid right aligned chapter and section titles
I'm trying to write a bidirectional (English/Hebrew) document in xelatex and polyglossia. For some reason, when I enable Hebrew as a secondary language, all the chapter and section titles become ...
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Lyx and Hebrew - Subsection numbering in the wrong direction [duplicate]
I'm using LaTeX to typeset Hebrew math papers, and just started using LyX for that purpose. I use the KOMA script article class and XeTeX, and everything works great except for one glitch:
The ...
