When I copy-and-paste the original into TeXworks, I don't get (on-screen) what I started with. Presumably this is because either my e-mail client (Seamonkey) or TeXworks (V0.4.0; R749) is doing something "wrong" with the ?Arabic? characters. In order that I can know which is "wrong", could someone more familiar with RTL languages tell me whether, between the outer
\begin{traditionalpoem} and the nested \end{traditionalpoem}} \end{traditionalpoem} I should see at on the first line some ?Arabic? text left, followed immediately by \footnote{\begin{traditionalpoem} (as I see in Seamonkey) or whether I should see <spaces>{footnote{\begin{traditionalpoem<mirrored interrogative><backslash>?Arabic? text (as I see in TeXworks) ? Philip Taylor -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex