[XeTeX] "typeset by bidi" message

[Peter Wilson]

I think that the "Typeset by the bidi package" message is much too 
modest. It should read something along the lines "Typeset by the bidi 
package developed by Vafa Khalighi for over 12 years without any funding 
or donations." In fact I think that every class/package used in a 
document should typeset similar wording about itself and its provenance 
on the top of the first page of any (All)TeX document. Many classes and 
packages have been developed over many more than 12 years, particularly 
TeX and LaTeX.

Peter W.


On 26/01/18 07:47, David Carlisle wrote:
> Getting the timing right with passing this option to bidi via 
> polyglossia is a bit tricky see
>
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/411907/suppress-bidis-logo-when-using-polyglossia
>
> the bidi author gives some justification for this here
>
> https://github.com/tex-xet/bidi/issues/60
>
> but to be honest I think that this is a really bad default, and 
> polyglossia probably should disable this while loading bidi rather 
> than rely on the user to find an undocumented option in an internally 
> loaded package.
>
> David
>
> On 26 January 2018 at 02:50, Bruno Le Floch <blflatex at gmail.com 
> <mailto:blflatex at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Kamal,
>
>     On 01/25/2018 09:10 PM, Kamal Abdali wrote:
>     > My xelatex-processed document has this message on the title page
>     of the
>     > document: *"Typeset by the bidi package."*
>     > *​* ​
>     > I understand that bidi is being called by polyglossia which I am using.
>     >
>     > I hadn't
>     > ​seen ​
>     > such a message before. Is there a way to avoid
>     > ​getting ​
>     > this message?
>     >
>     > Kamal Abdali
>
>     After loading the polyglossia package (but before selecting a language
>     that reads right-to-left) try adding
>
>     \usepackage[logo=off]{bidi}
>
>     Strangely the default is logo=on and the option is not documented.
>
>     Bruno
>
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