Am Sat, 1 Feb 2025 14:41:57 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen:
You can best try to handle this at the macro level. Page direction can badly interfere anyway and every change we make to the diretion code will introduce another issue. Just don't use it. FWIW, in luametatex we don't even have \pagedirection any more.
I came to the same conclusion after doing a number of tests (in https://github.com/LaTeX-Package-Repositories/geometry/issues/20#issuecommen...) where my summary was "As you want 'left margin' to mean 'left margin' imho the correct way to handle this not to set these directions at all. It looks wrong to change all reference points and then to add lots of complicated calculations to get the old behaviour back." -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/