[XeTeX] Interlinear rtl text

[Marcin Zalewski]

I tried to compile  Gareth's file but I get segmentation fault:

This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
entering extended mode
(./covtest.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ngerman, d
anish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, finnish, french, greek,
 monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibycus, indonesian,
 icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, portuguese, pinyin
, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish, turkish, ukengl
ish, ukrainian, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lm/lmodern.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/euenc/lm/eu1lmr.fd)Segmentation fault

I am running XeTeX on openSUSE linux, it seems to be a part of livetex
installation. Does anyone have some why am I getting segmentation
fault?

-m

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Gareth Hughes <garzohugo at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> Using bidi.sty, I found it better to set the entire gloss environment as
> rtl, then set individual Latin-script words as ltr within it. I've played
> around with punctuation. The example below sets punctuation as separate
> 'words' in the gloss, but I think it might look better to keep the
> punctuation in the rtl text (at the end of words) and ignore it in the Latin
> glosses (otherwise the punctuation looks like it's in the middle of a
> phrase). It's all a little hard to explain, so I attach my input file for
> anyone to have a go with it. You can replace the Syriac font with any
> Unicode font that covers the Syriac block, and Linux Libertine with any
> decent Latin Unicode font. I'm happy to send the PDF if anyone would prefer
> to see the result rather than the input.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gareth.
>
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