[XeTeX] Polyglossia(?)-bug: RTL-languages break crop-marks

Vafa Khalighi vafaklg at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 14:38:25 CEST 2011


Not a bug. bidi now puts picture environment automatically inside LTR mode.
Write to the author of crop, asking for bidi support in his package.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Florian Grammel <Grammel at gmx.net> wrote:

> As the example below shows, the setup of the RTL-languages Arabic, Hebrew
> or Syriac (not Persian, oddly enough) causes crop-marks to be placed at the
> wrong side of the page. This bug seems to have been introduced in a more
> recent update: A pdf from Oct 7th using this combination looks all right.
>
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
>
> \usepackage[paperwidth=16cm, paperheight=24cm]{geometry}
>
> \usepackage[cam,a4,center]{crop}
>
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setromanfont{Hoefler Text}
>
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
>
> \setdefaultlanguage{latin}
> %\setotherlanguage{english}
> \setotherlanguage{arabic}
>
>
> \usepackage{lipsum}
>
> \begin{document}
> \lipsum
> \end{document}
>
>
>
>
> Best regards
> Florian.
>
>
>
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