Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia/bidi -- footnote rule alignment

2010-10-16 Thread Gareth Hughes
Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:58:15PM -0400, Kamal Abdali wrote: >> Dear Gareth, >> >> Thanks for pointing out the better polyglossia style (\setmainfont). > > I think defining an \urdufont is better than setting it globally using > \setmainfont (neither is a polyglossia command

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia/bidi -- footnote rule alignment

2010-10-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:58:15PM -0400, Kamal Abdali wrote: > Dear Gareth, > > Thanks for pointing out the better polyglossia style (\setmainfont). I think defining an \urdufont is better than setting it globally using \setmainfont (neither is a polyglossia command) in case your Urdu font has n

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia/bidi -- footnote rule alignment

2010-10-15 Thread Kamal Abdali
Dear Gareth, Thanks for pointing out the better polyglossia style (\setmainfont). As to the main problem, Vafa Khalighi has kindly explained that for the footnoterule to be aligned correctly, the RTLdocument or rldocument option of bidi has to be activated. Apparently, this has not been done by p

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia/bidi -- footnote rule alignment

2010-10-14 Thread Gareth Hughes
Kamal Abdali wrote: > I'm using the package polyglossia to typeset documents in Urdu, a > right-to-left language. Polyglossia uses the bidi package whose > documentation implies that the footnote rule is right-aligned when the > footnote is in the middle of some right-to-left text. But the footnote