John Cowan wrote:
> Now that I look more closely, the RTL indexes have another anomaly.
> Although each *page* is properly RTL, the pages themselves appear
> in the overall LTR order; that is, the pages beginning with aleph/alif
> are closer to the (LTR) front of the book.
I have seen this arrangement on many western grammars books of RTL-written
languages: at the end of the book they often contain reading exercises
(short stories, etc.) which span on more than one page, and the pages are
always bound in the western LTR style.
But this is not the normal arrangement for a bilingual dictionary: the
English-Arabic part normally starts on the right-hand (LTR) cover, and the
Arabic-English part starts from the opposite (RTL) cover.
_ Marco
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