[XeTeX] Xetex and Arabic poetry

[Vafa Khalighi]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Gareth Hughes <garzohugo at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> OK, that processes now, but I notice that only the bottom three lines
> are drawn with kashida when I process it (PDF attached). Perhaps I'm
> using an old version (latest CTAN/tlmgr), but I cannot see any files
> available for download for either bidi or xepersian at berlios.
>

How many times did you run xelatex? perhaps, just once. You will need to run
xelatex at least twice. In  fact, if you run xelatex just once, you will get
a message saying "Unjustified poem. Rerun xelatex to get it right on input
line ....".


 A manual would be great. Clearly, there are more features in bidi now,
> and they're not covered by François's manual. I look forward to seeing
> it. Will it go straight to CTAN?
>
>
bidi is now very big and it offers many features, You can look at now as a
system of bidirectional typesetting and not as just a package. There are
lots of things that I wish to do for the next version, but first I need to
finish the manual, because if I write the manual at the end, then I will
probably forgot about the features. I hope that it will be in TL10 and
MiKTeX2.9.


-- 
Best wishes,
Vafa Khalighi
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