On 21 November 2016 at 12:42, Vafa Khalighi <vk...@uowmail.edu.au> wrote: > When TeX is building a LTR paragraph, if there are some overfull \hbox s, > then they stick out at the right of the offending box (please see the > example on page 27 of The TeXBook and Knuth explanation). > > > When one is typesetting a right to left paragraph, it is expected that if > there is any overfull \hbox, then it should stick out at the left of the > offending box (opposite to what happens in LTR) but in TeX--XeT model, the > beginning of the paragraph sticks out which is completely wrong and very > annoying. > > > LuaTeX's behavior is ok. > > > > I will file a bug report on sourceforge later. > >
That really is just a symptom of the basic problem with the tex-(-)xet model, the paragraph builder is essentially _always_ building a LTR paragraph, you can only use `\beginR/endR` _within_ the paragraph to typeset text runs in the opposite direction. There is no way to say "build a right to left paragraph" corresponding to \pardir. David -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
