[XeTeX] fancyhdr and plyglossia

Rembrandt Wolpert wolpert at uark.edu
Sun Jan 31 19:36:51 CET 2010


Just a marginal note re. margins: *no* typographically well set book has the
same left and right margin, and all books I read have recto and verso.

Rembrandt


On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 23:59, Vafa Khalighi <vafa at users.berlios.de> wrote:

> Hi Ross and Jens
>
> I do not think that this is a bug of bidi and I am going to explain why
> this is so.
>
> First Please have a look at attached tex file and its PDF output. The
> attached PDF shows the contents of all \marginpar commands. And I only had
> to make the left and right margin the same by using
> \usepackage[left=5cm,right=5cm]{geometry}. So this tell me that this has to
> do something with setting margins. Notice that when we are typesetting LTR,
> we are writing from left to right and the content of \marginpar appears on
> the right hand side and the content of \reversemarginpar appears on the left
> hand side. The RTL is absolutely should be opposite of this (which it is).
> Now in the original tex file that you sent, margins are the same, I mean the
> left and right margins are the same on , say, even pages independent of RTL
> typesetting or LTR typesetting. So I think this is natural. If you do not
> believe me, In the LTR part of your tex file, change all \marginpar  to
> \reversemarginpar and see that exactly the same thing that happened for
> \marginpar for RTL typesetting in even pages, happens this time for LTR
> texts.
>
> So I concluded that this is not a bug of bidi. Another solution would be to
> use \marginpar for LTR texts but \reversemarginpar for RTL texts.
>
> If you also remove twoside option from \documentclass, things will be ok.
>
>
> --
> Best wishes,
> Vafa Khalighi
>
>
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