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

Vafa Khalighi vafaklg at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 12:39:43 CET 2011


I have uploaded (when? today) a new version (which version? version 1.4.5)
of bidi package which adds full support for crop and picinpar packages.
Therefore you should no longer experience this issue.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Vafa Khalighi <vafaklg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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