On 2012-07-23, Ronen Abravanel wrote:
> Recently, I bumped into a 'bug' that effects the export of Hebrew LyX
> document into XeTeX documents. The bug was fixed by Jürgen Spitzmüller and
> myself, and it works grate for Hebrew.
> For more information, see
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8251
> What to do:
> - In an old (2.0x) LyX version, write an arabic document.
> - Document->Preferences->Fonts. mark 'use non-Tex fonts' and choose a
> proper arabic\farsi font from the available combos.
> - Write a document that contains many braces, ( ) , <> , {} , [] [in
> Arabic\Farsi and in English, not in math)
> - Compile the document using XeTex (View->View [other formats] -> PDF
> (XeTeX)
> - Is the document compiled properly? is all the braces are as expected?
> Do the same thing with the patched GIT version:
> - Is the document compiled properly? is all the braces are as expected?
Please also check, if you prefer to input the braces in the way old LyX
documents do it, ")siht ekil(", or if you prefer to input the braces in
the "Unicode" way "(siht ekil)". The latter should come out right without
the patch but may no longer with it!
> If, in the patched version not everything works grate, please attached the
> original LyX file, the output PDF, and if possible, also the XeTeX output.
Günter
