On Sun, 12 May 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:15:56PM +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> > > I figure that the bidi support somehow "reverses" some of the text, and
> > > the result is that the two magnification directives are applied in the
> > > reverse order.
> > >
> > > Anybodywith some knowledge of postscript?
> >
> > It seems that your guess is correct! look at the generated postscript below.
> > And thanks to your foresight, I can proclaim that the following correction, that
> > calls scalebox in a left-to-right context, works as expected.
> > Thanks, Tzafrir!
> > (maybe the hebrew support should be patched to do that automatically?)
Let's see. scalebox is from graphics (which may be loaded after babel)
>
> A better solution is to add the following to the preamble, and the you can use
> scalebox as usual:
>
> \makeatletter
> \let\oGscale@start=\Gscale@start
> \let\oGscale@end=\Gscale@end
> \def\Gscale@start{\if@rl \oGscale@end\else \oGscale@start\fi}
> \def\Gscale@end{\if@rl \oGscale@start\else \oGscale@end\fi}
> \makeatother
>
Should something of that sort work even before the package graphics was
loaded?
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Tzafrir Cohen
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