Hello All,
I am having a bit of a problem with Arabic text in footnotes. For some
reason certain characters such as ^ _ etc, are being read as operators
that call for a math environment, even though they are written within a
\textarab environment.
This problem can be "solved" by using the package bigfoot, however, for
my current project, I need to use ednotes, which is incompatible with
bigfoot.
I have created a minimal file, but it is a little involved, because I
want to show a few things.
First of all, within the critical notes of enotes, there is no problem.
When I try to include the same text, however, in a footnote in the
standard, English text (say the introduction, translation, etc), the
Arabic text will not compile.
If anyone has any suggestions, I would be grateful.
Below is a minimal file,
Best,
Nathan
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{memoir}
\usepackage{fontspec}
% We set the Latin font.
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Junicode}
\usepackage[novoc,fdf2noalif]{arabxetex}
\newfontinstance\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.2,WordSpace=2]{Scheherazade}
%\usepackage{manyfoot}
\usepackage[Bpara,modulo,right,addpageno,perpage,para*]{ednotes}% relies
on manyfoot and lineno % Bpara,modulo,right,perpage,para*
% For some reason, \textroman was not working out-of-the-box...
\newcommand{\textroman}[1]{\LR{\rmfamily #1}}
\begin{document}
There is some edited Arabic text which contains a note showing that
there is no problem here:
\begin{arab}
\resetlinenumber\pagewiselinenumbers
w-l-ykn
\Anote{\textarab{ay.d"aN}}{\textarab{al-^skl} \textroman{\textbf{A}}.}}
\aemph{b\,j-} a.s.gr mn \aemph{b\,A}. aqwl inn \aemph{a\,.h} a`.zm mn
\aemph{.t\,k-}.
\end{arab}
\newpage
Later on, there is some English text with footnotes, some of which have
some Arabic text in them:
Ladidada...We will have a footnote that contains the word
\textarab{al-^skl} it is the \^ \ in the asci input of \textarab{^s}
that causes the problem. It is being read as an operator in an uncalled
math environment.\footnote{
al-^skl.}
}
See the error message:
\begin{verbatim}
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
$
l.31 al-^skl.}
?
! Extra }, or forgotten $.
\...@footnotetext ...1\else \rmfamily #1\fi \strut }}
\b...@footnotetext@after \...
l.31 al-^skl.}
?
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
$
l.31 al-^skl.}
?
! Missing } inserted.
<inserted text>
}
l.31 al-^skl.}
?
! Too many }'s.
l.32 }
\end{verbatim}
\end{document}
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