The status of bidi and luabidi

[user-is-inactive-forever]

Dear David and others,

I am working on the LuaTeX part of the bidi package and I expect to have the bidi package working with the LuaTeX engine in about a month time when I will be releasing the new version of the bidi package to CTAN. Whenever that happens, I will announce the Luabidi package as an obsolete package since the bidi package should work with both engines. I will be doing exactly the same thing with my xepersian package which means that the package simurgh becomes obsolete.

Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi

[davidcarlisle]

Vafa glad to hear that you are able to keep working on bidi.
I would ask that you push any bidi updates to the bidi-tex/bidi repo here, it makes it less confusing for everyone, especially ctan, if there are not multiple copies

[user-is-inactive-forever]

Sure. Can you add me to the bidi-tex organization?

[davidcarlisle]

Sure. Can you add me to the bidi-tex organization?

you should have an invite from github now

[vafakhalighi]

As mentioned before, I have been working on the bidi package replacement for LuaTeX engine (biditex). I expect to release the initial version at the end of July. The package biditex will make package luabidi obsolete as it is a full replacement for the bidi package for LuaTeX engine. When it is released, the higher level packages polyglossia and babel can rely on the biditex package for bidirectional typesetting.