On July 5, I posted a query due to a problem I was having in creating media9 buttons in RTL mode. The error I was getting when placing a media button command in an RTL environment was "xdvipdfmx:fatal: A pending form XObject at the end of page.²
A. Grahn offered a solution (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/188434/media-button-in-rtl; see the MWE there) which, however, depended upon using the luaTeX engine in place of XeTeX and fooling polyglossia into loading luabidi in place of bidi. I have found that I can compile my real document now, and it seems ok. But I am obviously concerned at a) using luaTeX for a production document, given that lua documentation warns against it, b) pulling tricks on polyglossia to get it to work, and c) the fact that I get "Package polyglossia Warning: Hebrew is not supported with LuaTeX. I will proceed with the compilation, but the output is not guaranteed to be correct and may look very wrong.² I have searched but cannot find info on what the issue is with Hebrew and luaTeX (my output so far seems fine). I wonder a number of things: * Dare I proceed? (I rather need the RTL media buttonsŠ.) * Why does this work with luabidi but not bidi? (or even, what¹s a likely reasonŠ) * What¹s the issue with Hebrew and luaTex? * Is perhaps all of this likely to go away with the new XeTeX currently under discussion? Any insight at all on this would be appreciated. I follow the XeTeX discussion with interest though I confess that the details are beyond me :) Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, PhD | 2-139 Department of History | Wilfrid Laurier University | 75 University Avenue West | Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
