[XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

VAFA KHALIGHI vafaklg at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 16:52:18 CEST 2011


do you have a minimal example? Can you create one where bidi is not loaded
at all? maybe endnotes does not behave well with pstricks.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Nathan Sidoli
<nathan.sidoli at utoronto.ca>wrote:

>  I have tried loading them in every possible order, but as soon as I load
> pstricks the marginal numbers disappear.
>
>
> On 11/09/21 23:43, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:
>
> No, I think it has to do with something that tikzpicture or pspicture
> environment are in LTR mode by bidi. you can load endnotes anywhere you want
> but certainly bidi gives you error if you load tikz or pstricks after bidi,
> thus you only will have to load tikz or pstricks before bidi.
>
> 2011/9/22 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
>
> 2011/9/21 VAFA KHALIGHI <vafaklg at gmail.com>:
> > I am not sure what is the actual problem but I can tell you what bidi
> does.
> > bidi does the following:
> >
>  Can it depend on the order in which the packages are loaded? This is
> what I would try. My feeling is that the correct order would be tikz,
> endnote, bidi.
>
> > 1- makes l and r logical such that l means always left and r always means
> > right (in both RTL and LTR).
> >
> > 2- bidi automatically puts tikzpicture and pspicture envoronments in LTR
> > mode mainly for two reasons:
> > a) RTL picture environment does not make sense.
> > b) XeTeX in RTL mode, with \special has bugs and tikz and pstricks both
> uses
> > \special so we have no other choice but putting pspicture and tikzpicture
> > inside LTR mode.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Nathan Sidoli <
> nathan.sidoli at utoronto.ca>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I realize this is not strictly speaking a XeTeX issue, but I am
> >> typesetting a critical edition of an Arabic text using XeLaTeX with the
> >> ednotes package and I want to be able to make the diagrams for the text
> >> using either pstricks or TikZ so that the Arabic fonts can be changed in
> the
> >> text and diagrams simply by toggling the initial font setting.
> >>
> >> When I load either of these graphics packages, however, the line numbers
> >> in the margins of the Arabic text disappear.
> >>
> >> Has any one had a similar problem? Can any one think of a possible
> >> solution?
> >>
> >> I can work on a minimal example, but it will probably not be that
> minimal.
> >>
> >>
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