[XeTeX] custom footnote rules w/ ednotes, polyglossia & bidi

2010-07-24 Thread Talal Al-Azem
> footnote mechanism in bidi is pretty complex and it almost provides > everything you need. We can not support every single footnote package in > bidi. So you can not expect that ednote package works perfectly with bidi > unless its author has done some bidi-aware macro programming. bidi gives you

Re: [XeTeX] custom footnote rules w/ ednotes, polyglossia & bidi

2010-07-24 Thread Talal Al-Azem
> footnote mechanism in bidi is pretty complex and it almost provides > everything you need. We can not support every single footnote package in > bidi. So you can not expect that ednote package works perfectly with bidi > unless its author has done some bidi-aware macro programming. bidi gives you

[XeTeX] manyfoot.sty problems after update to MacTex 2010

2010-09-22 Thread Talal Al-Azem
\newfootnote[para]{A} % Needs `manyfoot.sty'. Any help would be much appreciated. Kind regards, Talal Al-Azem -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] manyfoot.sty problems after update to MacTex 2010

2010-09-22 Thread Talal Al-Azem
This may address > the first error complaining about the new count; the subsequent errors > probably follow from that one. > > Alan > > On Sep 22, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Talal Al-Azem wrote: > >> Hello, I have just updated to MacTex/TexLive 2010. I am now trying to >>

Re: [XeTeX] manyfoot.sty problems after update to MacTex 2010

2010-09-22 Thread Talal Al-Azem
package. This may address >> the first error complaining about the new count; the subsequent errors >> probably follow from that one. >> >> Alan >> >> On Sep 22, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Talal Al-Azem wrote: >> >>> Hello, I have just updated to Mac

Re: [XeTeX] manyfoot.sty problems after update to MacTex 2010

2010-09-23 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Dear all, Thank you for the suggestions and help. I reinstalled a vanilla copy of 2010 again, lhen --using the excellent suggestion of \listfiles--saw which packages were being called up, explicitly or as dependencies. I then began to update packages one at a time. I was able to determine the

[XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Hello. I have a section of a chapter, the text of which is RTL. However, to keep the headers uniform with the rest of the chapter, I want its header to be LTR. How do I do this in Bidi? I tried doing \section{\LTR{header title}}, but the result I got had the section numbering still RTL: header

[XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Hello. I wrote about two weeks ago, but unfortunately didn't receive any advice as to what I should do. At the time, I wrote: > I am preparing an edition of an Arabic text, where the main text is separated > from the commentary by placing an overline above the former. I am trying to > use the \

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
uot;2.1 header title"). Many thanks, Talal On 27 Sep 2010, at 23:53, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Talal Al-Azem wrote: > Hello. I have a section of a chapter, the text of which is RTL. However, to > keep the headers uniform with the rest of the chap

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
, Talal Al-Azem <tala...@fastmail.fm> wrote: Hello Vafa. Yes, my main direction of the section (chapter) is RTL. But like I've described, the rest of the book is LTR. As such, I need the headers to be uniform, and all be LTR (since the book is written in English, with the exception of t

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Juan, take a look at page 6-8 of the pdf you sent me; you'll find they are not correct. :-) On 28 Sep 2010, at 01:02, Juan Acevedo wrote: > Talal: > > Using > bidi 2010/08/01 v1.1.4c > I get the attached pdf, which looks right, I mean LTR as you want. > > Best, > J > > > > > > -

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
You're right. But due to exigencies of my project, I have no choice but to use Memoir, due to all the excellent facilities it adds. I hope this is something resolvable! Many thanks for taking the time to follow this problem. Kind regards, Talal On 28 Sep 2010, at 00:53, Vafa Khalighi wrote: >

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Vafa, Many thanks! So far, from my minimal testing, looks good! Kind regards, Talal On 28 Sep 2010, at 00:44, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > Use umonline package: > http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=umoline > > > -- > به نام خداوند جان و خرد کزین برتر اندیشه برنگذرد