version 1.1.3 of bidi is now on dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/...
It fixes this bug and should be in the next TeXLive update.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:27 AM, VAFA KHALIGHI <vafa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a bug of bidi package however I do not think "claim" is a polite
> word. I fix it today and upload the new version to CTAN.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Ari Meir Brodsky <ari.brod...@utoronto.ca
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been using LaTeX to typeset math for years, but just recently I
>> decided
>> to upgrade to XeLaTeX in order to include Hebrew. I've come across the
>> following problem. Chapter 2 of the bidi package document (version 1.3.0,
>> page 15) claims that the bidi package supports the hyperref package as
>> well
>> as the amsart class. However, when I use all three together --- amsart,
>> hyperref, bidi --- the XeTeX engine goes into an infinite loop at the
>> \makefile command, and exceeds the input stack size capacity. Here is a
>> small example:
>>
>> -------------------------------
>> % !TeX encoding = UTF-8
>> % !TeX program = xelatex
>> % test_bidi_hyperref.tex
>> \documentclass{amsart}
>> \usepackage{hyperref}
>> \usepackage{bidi}
>> \title{This is a test file}
>> \author{Ari Meir Brodsky}
>> \begin{document}
>> \maketitle
>>
>> Hi, this is just a test.
>> \end{document}
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> Some (hopefully relevant) excerpted lines from the log file are:
>>
>> -------------------------------------
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (MiKTeX 2.9) (preloaded
>> format=xelatex 2011.9.20)
>> entering extended mode
>> **test_bidi_hyperref.tex
>>
>> LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
>> Document Class: amsart 2009/07/02 v2.20.1
>> Package: hyperref 2011/08/19 v6.82h Hypertext links for LaTeX
>> Package hyperref Message: Driver (autodetected): hxetex.
>> File: hxetex.def 2011/08/19 v6.82h Hyperref driver for XeTeX
>> Package: bidi 2011/10/01 v1.3.0 Bidirectional typesetting in plain TeX and
>> LaTeX
>> File: xetex-bidi.def 2011/07/25 v0.9 bidi adaptations for XeTeX engine
>> File: amsart-xetex-bidi.def 2011/08/26 v0.6 bidi adaptations for amsart
>> class for XeTeX engine
>> File: amsthm-xetex-bidi.def 2010/07/25 v0.1 bidi adaptations for amsthm
>> package for XeTeX engine
>> File: hyperref-xetex-bidi.def 2010/07/25 v0.4 bidi adaptations for
>> hyperref
>> package for XeTeX engine
>> File: umsa.fd 2009/06/22 v3.00 AMS symbols A
>> File: umsb.fd 2009/06/22 v3.00 AMS symbols B
>> Package: nameref 2010/04/30 v2.40 Cross-referencing by name of section
>>
>> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
>> \@ifnextchar #1#2#3->\let \reserved@d =#1
>> \def \reserved@a {#2}\def
>> \reserved...
>> l.11
>>
>> If you really absolutely need more capacity,
>> you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
>>
>> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>> 7077 strings out of 429156
>> 96081 string characters out of 3168943
>> 193729 words of memory out of 3000000
>> 10145 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
>> 7385 words of font info for 29 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
>> 947 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
>> 5000i,3n,26p,313b,130s stack positions out of
>> 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
>> No pages of output.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Any ideas how to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Ari
>>
>> -----------------------
>> Ari M. Brodsky
>> ari.brod...@utoronto.ca
>>
>>
>>
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