[XeTeX] bidi & xwatermark are broken

Wilfred van Rooijen wvanrooijen at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 12 13:07:12 CEST 2013


Well, it works OK on my computer, but note that the "DRAFT" shows up in a rather strange place...

See attached PDF.

Wilfred





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> From: Fahad Al-Saidi <fahad.alsaidi at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [XeTeX] bidi & xwatermark are broken
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>Hi Arthur, I have already tested that but what happen is the output document is empty. 
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>On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org> wrote:
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>        Hello,
>>
>>  I can confirm that with TeX Live 2013 pretest.  The problem is that
>>xwatermark needs hyperref but postpones it inclusion until the end of
>>the preamble, and that bidi wants to be loaded last, as you can see from
>>the error message.  Hence both packages fight to be included last.
>>
>>  I can work around the problem by explicitly loading hyperref just
>>before xwatermark:
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>>        \usepackage{hyperref}
>>        \usepackage{xwatermark,loops}
>>        ...
>>        \usepackage[RTLdocument]{bidi}
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>>  Hope this helps.
>>
>>        Best,
>>
>>                Arthur
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