[XeTeX] bidi & eso-pic are broken

Vafa Khalighi vafa.klgh at gmail.com
Sun Jun 9 07:56:02 CEST 2013


This has nothing to do with eso-pic-bidi file. In the previous versions of
bidi package, the behaviour of picture environment was changes so that in
RTL, still the reference point was at the right (where the line starts in
RTL) but commands like \put behaved the same in LTR and RTL. i.e. if you
gave a positive horizontal coordinate to \put, t would go to the right and
if you gave a negative horizontal coordinate, it would go to the left.

Later on, we found that it was more problematic rather than being useful.
Therefore I removed that modification to picture environment.


Your example, will work fine in RTL, if you just change the horizontal
coordinate of \put in your document. On the other hand, \RTL and \LTR are
not commands; RTL and LTR are environments.

Vafa


On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:

>
> Am 08.06.2013 um 11:03 schrieb Fahad Al-Saidi:
>
> > in ubuntu 12.04 packages which used ( I am not sure here) TexLive 2009,
> the
> > problem didn't happen.*
>
> I can confirm this, somehow. In TL '09 and '10 the greyish background
> picture is shifted out towards the left, its right edge is in the middle.
> In later releases the background picture's left edge is kind of aligned
> with the left edge of the text, so it's shifted out to the right (and then
> pushed in, when the text grows).
>
>
>
>
>
> (My background picture is not wide enough and I am not using an eso-pic
> option make it fill the whole text width. This explains the 2009 + 2010
> white gap between the greyish picture and the text.)
>
> Here is an overview of the packages used in those TeX Live releases:
>
> TeX Live 2009 *File List*
>                               TL '10 *File List*      TL '11 *File List*
>    TL '12 *File List*
>  article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
>                              2007/10/19 v1.4h        2007/10/19 v1.4h
>  2007/10/19 v1.4h
>   size10.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
>                              2007/10/19 v1.4h        2007/10/19 v1.4h
>  2007/10/19 v1.4h
>  eso-pic.sty    2009/10/07 v2.0a eso-pic (RN)
>                               2010/10/06 v2.0c        2010/10/06 v2.0c
>    2010/10/06 v2.0c
> atbegshi.sty    2010/03/25 v1.12 At begin shipout hook (HO)
>                               2011/01/30 v1.15        2011/10/05 v1.16
>    2011/10/05 v1.16
> infwarerr.sty    2010/04/08 v1.3 Providing info/warning/message (HO)
>                               2010/04/08 v1.3         2010/04/08 v1.3
>   2010/04/08 v1.3
>  ltxcmds.sty    2010/04/26 v1.7 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)
>                              2011/04/18 v1.20        2011/11/09 v1.22
>  2011/11/09 v1.22
>    ifpdf.sty    2010/01/28 v2.1 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
>                              2011/01/30 v2.3         2011/01/30 v2.3
>   2011/01/30 v2.3
>   keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
>                               1999/03/16 v1.13        1999/03/16 v1.13
>    1999/03/16 v1.13
>   xcolor.sty    2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
>                              2007/01/21 v2.11        2007/01/21 v2.11
>  2007/01/21 v2.11
>    color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
>                              2007/01/18 v1.5         2007/01/18 v1.5
>   2007/01/18 v1.5
>    xetex.def    2009/11/22 v0.94 LaTeX color/graphics driver for XeTeX
> (RRM/JK)                         2009/11/22 v0.94        2009/11/22 v0.94
>      2013/02/04 v0.95
> graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
>                               1999/02/16 v1.0f        1999/02/16 v1.0f
>    1999/02/16 v1.0f
> graphics.sty    2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
>                               2009/02/05 v1.0o        2009/02/05 v1.0o
>    2009/02/05 v1.0o
>     trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
>                              1999/03/16 v1.09        1999/03/16 v1.09
>  1999/03/16 v1.09
> graphics.cfg    2009/08/28 v1.8 graphics configuration of TeX Live
>                              2010/04/23 v1.9         2010/04/23 v1.9
>   2010/04/23 v1.9
> geometry.sty    2010/03/13 v5.3 Page Geometry
>                               2010/09/12 v5.6         2010/09/12 v5.6
>   2010/09/12 v5.6
>   ifvtex.sty    2010/03/01 v1.5 Switches for detecting VTeX and its modes
> (HO)                          2010/03/01 v1.5         2010/03/01 v1.5
>   2010/03/01 v1.5
>                                                         ifxetex.sty
> Provides ifxetex conditional    2010/09/12 v0.6         2010/09/12 v0.6
>     2010/09/12 v0.6
> geometry.cfg
>     bidi.sty    2010/07/25 v1.0.9 <commit 42> Bidirectional typesetting in
> XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX         2011/03/21 v1.1.7       2012/05/01 v11.154
>  2013/04/04 v12.2
>    iftex.sty    2010/07/25 v0.1 Provides if(tex) conditional for PDFTeX,
> XeTeX, and LuaTeX              2010/07/25 v0.2         2010/07/25 v0.2
>     2013/04/04 v0.2
>
> biditools.sty     Programming tools for bidi package    2012/05/01 v0.1
>      2012/05/01 v0.1
>
> zref-abspage.sty  Module abspage for zref (HO)
>         2012/04/04 v2.24
>
> zref-base.sty    Module base for zref (HO)
>       2012/04/04 v2.24
>
> kvsetkeys.sty    Key value parser (HO)
>       2012/04/25 v1.16
>
> etexcmds.sty     Avoid name clashes with e-TeX commands (HO)
>      2011/02/16 v1.5
>
> ifluatex.sty     Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
>      2010/03/01 v1.3
>
> kvdefinekeys.sty  Define keys (HO)
>         2011/04/07 v1.3
>
> pdftexcmds.sty    Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO)
>      2011/11/29 v0.20
>
>  auxhook.sty     Hooks for auxiliary files (HO)
>     2011/03/04 v1.3
> loadingorder-bidi.def    2010/07/25 v0.4 making sure that bidi is the last
> package loaded               2011/04/16 v0.6
> xetex-bidi.def    2010/07/25 v0.5 bidi adaptations for XeTeX engine
>                               2010/08/01 v0.8         2012/05/01 v1.0.
>      2012/12/12 v1.0.6
> footnote-xetex-bidi.def    2010/07/25 v0.5 bidi footnote macros for XeTeX
> engine                        2010/07/25 v0.5         2010/07/25 v0.5
>     2012/12/12 v0.6
>                 article-xetex-bidi.def     bidi adaptations for standard
> article class for XeTeX engine 2010/07/25 v0.4         2010/07/25 v0.4
>       2010/07/25 v0.4
> color-xetex-bidi.def    2010/07/25 v0.1 bidi adaptations for color package
> for XeTeX engine             2010/07/25 v0.1         2010/07/25 v0.1
>   2010/07/25 v0.1
> xcolor-xetex-bidi.def    2010/07/25 v0.1 bidi adaptations for xcolor
> package for XeTeX engine           2010/07/25 v0.1         2010/07/25 v0.1
>          2010/07/25 v0.1
> graphicx-xetex-bidi.def    2010/07/25 v0.3 bidi adaptations for graphicx
> package for XeTeX engine       2010/07/25 v0.3         2012/01/01 v0.4
>        2012/01/01 v0.4
>
> geometry-xetex-bidi.def  bidi adaptations for geometry package for XeTeX
> engine    2013/04/01 v0.1
>                                                 loadingorder-bidi.def
> making sure that bidi is the last package loaded      2012/01/01 v0.8a
>     2012/12/12 v0.9
> article-xetex-bidi.def    2010/07/25 v0.4 bidi adaptations for standard
> article class for XeTeX engine
>
>
> Fahad, in case you don't know how to create those file lists, it's the
> command \listfiles, for example put as first line, even before
> \documentclass{article}.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.
>
>
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