Yes, of course you are right. However, many of the older LaTeX packages
are not being developed very actively any more (or not at all in some
cases) so it makes it difficult to decide what to use when one need the
functionality of some of the older packages but also wants to work with
unicode, etc.
Anyway, you have certainly done a great deal to make bidi very
functional and I am very grateful for that.
On 11/09/23 12:09, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:
For how long have bidi and ednotes been incompatible? François
Charette , who maintains arabxetex and works on polyglossia, wrote
an example file showing how to use arabxetex + bidi with ednotes
to produce critical editions, so I assumed there would be some
effort to keep the packages compatible.
Well, certainly bidi can not support every single package on CTAN, one
would need unlimited resources to be able to do that. bidi itself is
now too big, it supports around 100 packages. Unfortunately the
concept is misunderstood, it is not the duty of bidi package to add
support for other packages but other packages themselves have to add
bidi support. bidi should only support standard LaTeX and considering
this, I have done heaps more than I ought to do. So it makes sense if
you contact the author of ednotes package and ask him for bidi support
in his package.
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