[XeTeX] longtable and RTL (Arabic)

[Jens Bakker]

Dear Arthur Reutenauer,

Thank you very much for your advice and your valuable informations.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I would like to proceed to you also with another problem connected with longtable and Arabic, please. After using bidi-longtable successfully, I wanted to insert a footnote defined by manyfoot into the table and therefore I ended the longtable after the line with the footnote and started a new one immediately after the first. But this second longtable has another appearance despite the fact that it has the same defined dimension. Has anybody a remedy?

The files are attached.

With best wishes and best regards,
Jens Bakker


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Am 30.04.2013 um 14:57 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer:

>> I am really sorry, I forgot to attach the files! Here they are:
> 
>  And I'm sorry too, because I didn't notice your second message ;-)
> Next time, if you could reply to yourself, that would make it easier to
> follow the thread.
> 
>  Anyway, your problem is addressed at section 3.1 of the documentation:
> 
> 	For typesetting RTL tables with longtable package, an
> 	experimental package, bidi-longtable package, is provided.
> 	bidi-longtable package should be loaded after longtable package.
> 
>  I suppose longtable posed special challenges that needed to be
> addressed by a separate package.  And since bidi seems to protest when
> you load longtable after itself, the order you should load the packages
> seems to be:
> 
> 	\usepackage{longtable}
> 	\usepackage{bidi}
> 	\usepackage{bidi-longtable}
> 
>> P.S.: Strange enough, the English words "Titel" and "Page" are set correctly LTR without defining a Latin language in the preamble.
> 
>  No, I'm guessing that's an artefact of how XeTeX works: back in the
> times when it was using ICU, it would ship entire words to be shaped,
> and then inserted back into the flow; and the shaping engine knows the
> directionality of the different characters.  Presumably that same
> behaviour has been retained with HarfBuzz; however I'll let Khaled
> comment on that, as I haven't looked at the code.
> 
> 	Arthur
> 
> 
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