[XeTeX] Problem using bidi with hyperref and amsart

[Ari Meir Brodsky]

Hello,

I've been using LaTeX to typeset math for years, but just recently I decided
to upgrade to XeLaTeX in order to include Hebrew.  I've come across the
following problem.  Chapter 2 of the bidi package document (version 1.3.0,
page 15) claims that the bidi package supports the hyperref package as well
as the amsart class.  However, when I use all three together --- amsart,
hyperref, bidi --- the XeTeX engine goes into an infinite loop at the
\makefile command, and exceeds the input stack size capacity.  Here is a
small example:

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% !TeX encoding = UTF-8
% !TeX program = xelatex
% test_bidi_hyperref.tex
\documentclass{amsart}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{bidi}
\title{This is a test file}
\author{Ari Meir Brodsky}
\begin{document}
\maketitle

Hi, this is just a test.
\end{document}
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Some (hopefully relevant) excerpted lines from the log file are:

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This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (MiKTeX 2.9) (preloaded
format=xelatex 2011.9.20)  
entering extended mode
**test_bidi_hyperref.tex

LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Document Class: amsart 2009/07/02 v2.20.1
Package: hyperref 2011/08/19 v6.82h Hypertext links for LaTeX 
Package hyperref Message: Driver (autodetected): hxetex.
File: hxetex.def 2011/08/19 v6.82h Hyperref driver for XeTeX
Package: bidi 2011/10/01 v1.3.0 Bidirectional typesetting in plain TeX and
LaTeX
File: xetex-bidi.def 2011/07/25 v0.9 bidi adaptations for XeTeX engine
File: amsart-xetex-bidi.def 2011/08/26 v0.6 bidi adaptations for amsart
class for XeTeX engine
File: amsthm-xetex-bidi.def 2010/07/25 v0.1 bidi adaptations for amsthm
package for XeTeX engine
File: hyperref-xetex-bidi.def 2010/07/25 v0.4 bidi adaptations for hyperref
package for XeTeX engine
File: umsa.fd 2009/06/22 v3.00 AMS symbols A
File: umsb.fd 2009/06/22 v3.00 AMS symbols B
Package: nameref 2010/04/30 v2.40 Cross-referencing by name of section

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]. 
\@ifnextchar #1#2#3->\let \reserved at d =#1
                                         \def \reserved at a {#2}\def
\reserved... l.11 
     
If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.

Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 7077 strings out of 429156
 96081 string characters out of 3168943
 193729 words of memory out of 3000000
 10145 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
 7385 words of font info for 29 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000 
 947 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 
 5000i,3n,26p,313b,130s stack positions out of
5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s 
No pages of output.

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Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks,
-Ari


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Ari M. Brodsky
ari.brodsky at utoronto.ca