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What happened to \luatextextdir?
The 'proper' (internal) name of the primitive has always been \textdir, but for various reasons it used to be 'activated' as \luatextextdir in LuaLaTeX. The LaTeX team have recently revised this ...
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How to reverse section numbering for right-to-left languages?
Using the solution from Fix nested section numbers in RTL languages with polyglossia (and no, I haven't gotten down to why this works yet):
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\...
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How can I input Uyghur language in LaTeX?
Disclaimer: I can't read Uyghur, so I don't actually know if this is correct.
Neither polyglossia nor babel appear to support Uyghur out of the box. ArabTeX claims to, but I think you have to use ...
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Arabic Numerals in Arabic Text
To get the Unicode bidirectional algorithm working correctly, you need to use babel. There are many clever things babel can now do with lualatex and right-to-left languages. Have a look through the ...
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tikz: Right to left text within text along path
As it has been mentioned already, the reverse text effect described in the TikZ manual is what you are looking for.
However, you also want to first group the letters using the group letters effect, ...
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Misplaced comma after LTR word in bidirectional document
XeTeX and/or the bidi package seems not to handle this correctly. With lualatex and babel it works out of the box (I don't have your font here, so use another one):
% compile with lualatex
\...
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Point location in the end of RTL sentence with a last English word
You have to explicitly change the language to English:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{hebrew}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\begin{...
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How to make an enumerated list's numbering alphabetic per the Hebrew alphabet, in a Hebrew beamer presentation?
You can not use enumitem with beamer: As you saw it overwrites various beamer commands and so destroys the look and also overlay specification.
beamer loads the enumerate package which allows to ...
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witharrows package reverses text in RTL language?
That problem is not specific to witharrows. It's a problem of the PGF/Tikz nodes (in conjunction with polyglossia and xelatex).
I think that the best solution is to put a command \tikzset{text=.} in ...
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How to reverse section numbering for right-to-left languages?
The above answer is correct. I am adding this answer for the reference. One should add this lines to the MWE provided in the question:
\makeatletter
\def\SepMark#1{\gdef\@SepMark{\if@RTL\fi#1\if@RTL\...
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Right-to-left interlinear translation, multiple words for one translation
An explicit (=cumbersome) and cleaner solution
A quick solution would be to use the bidi package’s \LR{} command:
\glc \LR{In the beginning} created God - \LR{the heavens} and \LR{the earth.}//
See ...
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Big gap between two parboxes in modified RTL expex environment
The problem is that \leftskip is used to leave space for the number, but in RTL typesetting the skip is needed on the right.
You can define a \beginskip, which is \rightskip or \leftskip depending on ...
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bidi package fail with recent version of multicol
You could try this (but there is lots of guessing involved, so I don't know if it will also work in more complicated cases):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\...
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How do I typeset RTL language phrases inside a document with mostly LTR text?
In LuaLaTeX, you can even configure Babel to detect the language you are typing in and select the correct font (and line-breaking) automatically.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\tracinglostchars=3 % ...
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bidi, RTL and \write
You were lucky that 1 got output, if you use
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bidi}
\begin{document}
\showoutput
\RTL
\leavevmode\newwrite\toto
\openout\toto=\jobname.sty
\write\toto{1}ssss
\write\...
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Getting right-to-left output in Arabic and Persian/Farsi with pdfLaTeX
Short answer: Instead of \foreignlanguage{arabic} and \foreignlanguage{farsi}, use \AR and \FR.
Firstly, the MWE given in the question (at least as of the current revision) is most certainly not ...
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ConTeXt: How to typeset Arabic text?
[Disclaimer: Neither do I speak arabic nor do I have any understanding of the arabic script.]
I copied the relevant stuff to setup the arabic font from ara-sty.tex. That is the font features and ...
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Bidi algorithm and xelatex
Using lualatex and babel
I recently discovered that babel use basic support for this using lualatex. You still have to use \selectlanguage{hebrew} to switch to a RTL paragraph, but inline bidi seems ...
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bidi: Strange error tkz-tab package with texlive 2018
tkz-tab loads etex.sty. If I prevent this the document compiles fine:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\expandafter\def\csname [email protected]\endcsname{}
\usepackage{tkz-tab}
...
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Latex editor that correctly supports mixed RTL presentation
I don't think it's so clear that what you have seen is incorrect, even though certainly not ideal when working on a LaTeX file.
I'm giving examples of Emacs (available on "all" operating systems, ...
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How to make cleveref references use a language-sensitive connective between multiple references, when the document's language is Hebrew?
If you look into the cleveref code you can see that language support consist of two parts: At first a language option is defined, followed by a \cref@addlanguagedefs command which repeats everything. ...
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Is there in babel a list of all languages with RTL script supported by the package
They are scripts, not languages. The Arabic script is used by many languages, and the pair script-language, which OpenType calls ‘language system’, is what counts in a locale. The languages with ...
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Tikz sweeps location of text inside node with Hebrew
Add the package option layout=graphics, that is:
\usepackage[english,hebrew,bidi=basic,layout=graphics,provide=*]{babel}
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How do I typeset RTL language phrases inside a document with mostly LTR text?
I advise to use lualatex with babel. It identifies the scripts which require RTL typesetting. In this example I have used Awami which better supports Urdu. Here is an example:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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LaTeX: issue when using multicol with RTL languages
I just ran into this problem, and did a bit more searching. I guess the trick is to use RTLmulticolcolumns instead of RLmulticolcolumns.
Here is what the bidi manual says.
In the previous versions of ...
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Display tikzpiture environment in Righ to Left direction in a Document using a language with Left to Right direction as the main language
Arabic nodes in TikZ picture
You may define a arabic node TikZ style:
\tikzset{
arabic node/.style={
execute at begin node={\Arabic},
execute at end node={\endArabic},
},
}
Completed ...
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How to reverse section numbering for right-to-left languages?
As others stated, what you are asking is wrong and indeed weird; xepersian have been around since 2008 and this is the first time I hear such thing. Say that you are using the book document class and ...
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How to force source code to be written LTR in a RTL document?
In your case better use of
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic, Scale=1.2]{Amiri}
\newfontfamily\arabicfonttt{Courier New}
Rather then
\setmainfont[Script=Arabic, Scale=1.2]{Amiri}
\...
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Arabic bibliography in English document: Disconnected letters
As suggested by Salim Bou, change your main font... but locally using {...}:
{
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Script=Arabic]{Amiri}
\setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text,Script=Arabic]{Amiri}
\...
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