[XeTeX] bidi and fontspec

Daniel Buechner mael-duin at gmx.de
Fri Jun 24 23:35:47 CEST 2016


Yea! I asked the same thing today on German tex-d-l, after I encountered 
the problem last night.
I thought I might have hit a wrong key kombination that calls bidi, 
making the period active …

I've updated to TL '16 last week, it was the first run on that peticular 
document after the update – everything waaas fine with TL '15…

Best!
Daniel



Am 24.06.2016 um 23:07 schrieb maxwell:
> I believe I've run into a bug in the interaction of fontspec and bidi in
> the 2016 TeXLive distribution.  However, it appears to be so simple to
> trigger that I'm wondering whether it's something I'm doing.
>
> The WME is:
> ------------
> \documentclass{report}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{bidi}
>
> \begin{document}
> The number 12. The number 34.56. Some more text.
> \end{document}
> ------------
>
> The result of running xelatex on the above is the text:
> ------------
> The number .12 The number .56.34 Some more text.
> ------------
>
> You'll notice that the two numbers appear in reverse order across the
> periods--that is, if you have
>     <number><period>
> in the input file, you get
>     <period><number>
> in the PDF.  But the digits inside <number> are in the correct order.
> Other punctuation that I've tried (including the comma) do not seem to
> trigger this bug, only the period.  (Hexadecimal digits A-F block the
> reversal, too :-).)
>
> Loading fontspec seems to be necessary for this bug to happen.  And I'm
> not actually invoking either bidi or fontspec.
>
> Can someone reproduce this?
>
>     Mike Maxwell

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