[XeTeX] bidi & eso-pic are broken

[Tobias Schoel]

Wallpaper could be fixed to use tikz or a subset of tikz which offers to 
put things at absolute positions regarding the page and in the 
background. But maybe this is cannons at flies? (Or what is the correct 
saying in English?)

Am 10.06.2013 09:41, schrieb Fahad Al-Saidi:
> Thanks Vafa for helping me. I would like to ask if there is any  way to
> fix wallpaper package to work as expected in RTL document.
>
> Regards,
> Fahad
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Vafa Khalighi <vafa.klgh at gmail.com
> <mailto:vafa.klgh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     I have just done that. I only needed to change the horizontal
>     co-ordinate of \put command as previously mentioned and it works as
>     one would expect in RTL. I have changed the horizontal co-ordinate
>     of \put from 0pt to -(\paperwidth-\textwidth).
>
>     Vafa
>
>
>     On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Fahad Al-Saidi
>     <fahad.alsaidi at gmail.com <mailto:fahad.alsaidi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Thanks Vafa for the clarification. If you can guide me what the
>         the recommended way to deal with pictures especially water mark
>         in RTL document since wallpaper does not work as expected. I am
>         working in a document for children that includes hundreds
>         pictures and I am using wallpaper & eso-pic packages heavily.
>         Now I can return to ubuntu 12.04' packages but I will face the
>         problem soon or later.
>
>
>         On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Vafa Khalighi
>         <vafa.klgh at gmail.com <mailto:vafa.klgh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             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
>
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