Issues related to bidirectional TeXing
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hyperref changes footnotes of Koma script
I defined footnotes to insert a colon between \footnote{bla}\footnote{bla}. But when I load hyperref this is destroyed. In addition KOMA removes space at the beginning of a footnote, while hyperref ...
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Why there is a white space in the right side when using wallpaper & polyglossia in TexLive 2013
when I use wallpaper & polyglossia there is a white space in the right side of the page. Please test this:
\documentclass[a4paper]{book}%
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
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How insert a RTL citation in a LTR article
How can I insert a RTL citation (e.g Persian) in a LTR (e.g. English) article using BibTeX?
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Can't use \left. … \right| in a custom environment
I'm writing a Hebrew (RTL) document with equations and I compile it with xelatex. The equation numbers are wrong and I have found that placing \LTR tag before the equation fix this. I have created an ...
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List renders incorrectly
In output of following LaTeX markup, the list is rendered incorrectly. What is wrong with it?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\faFont[Script=Arabic]{Tahoma}
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\ref doesn't work in math mode if hyperref and bidi packages are loaded [closed]
Is \ref supposed to work in math mode? If hyperref and bidi are loaded, it generates errors:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{bidi}
\begin{document}
Testing labels with ...
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bidi's undefined environments in (my) LuaLaTeX system
I typeset Arabic text with LuaLaTeX. I am using the following definitions and it works nicely:
\newcommand{\arabtext}[1] % Arabic inside LTR
{\bgroup\luatextextdir TRT\arabicfont #1\egroup}
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Inserting some Arabic script in an English article
Until now I was using XePersian package to typeset Persian articles, now I want insert some Persian word in an English document, what is minimum code to do that without using XePersian package?
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Linenumbering per page with XePersian and the traditionalpoem environment
I’m editing an Arabic poem with XePersian and the traditionalpoem environment which works fine so far, but I have some questions regarding the line numbers and the paragraph footnotes.
(1) I would ...
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amsmath - bidi - siunitx possible bug?
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[detect-all]{siunitx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[math-style=ISO,bold-style=ISO]{unicode-math}
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How to display non-printable Unicode characters in Emacs/AucTeX?
I would like to see the non-printable Unicode bidi characters PDF (202C), LRO (202D), RLO (202E) in the emacs editor (but not the pdf output). How can i do this?
EDIT: Here's a minimal working ...
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Why shapepar figure shifts to the left?
I modified \SH@restack so that it can typeset RTL shapepars but now the shapepar figures are not centered, can anyone tell me why?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[left=1cm,right=1cm]{geometry}
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Alignment of page numbers in table of contents
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\section{test}
\newpage
\setcounter{page}{22}
\section{introduction}
\newpage
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“improper alphabetic constant” with hyperref and bidi packages
I'm getting an "improper alphabetic constant" error in xelatex which appears to be due to an interaction between the bidi and hyperref packages, when I redefine the \section cmd. Here's an MWE:
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Question about zref bundle (changing the behaviour of footnote rule)
In bidi package, we have three footnote commands \footnote (typesetting RTL footnotes in RTL mode and typesetting LTR footnotes in LTR modes), \RTLfootnote (always typeset RTL footnote), and ...
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Is there a way to print two tikzpictures next to each other marked with a and b?
I have the following code that should print the two figures next to each other with an a to the left of the first figure and a b to the left of the second one. The code below does this, but everything ...
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How to get longtable and bidi to work together?
I am typesetting a Hebrew document using bidi. The material in the longtable environment still comes out LTR. How do I make it work?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
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Line numbers in traditionalpoem environment?
So I've been trying to get satisfactory results typesetting Persian and Arabic poems, in the traditional format, with XeLaTeX. It works just about fine – see the sample document below – but I would ...
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Problem when bidi & hyperref packages are used with custom document class (XeLaTeX)
There is a problem when bidi & hyperref packages are used together and custom document style is used. For example:
\documentclass[unicode]{myreport}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\author{Author}
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Invalid right aligned chapter and section titles
I'm trying to write a bidirectional (English/Hebrew) document in xelatex and polyglossia. For some reason, when I enable Hebrew as a secondary language, all the chapter and section titles become ...
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Problem with persian-bib package [closed]
I have a document where the main language should be English with only some Arabic text.
In my references I have English as well as Arabic references.
The main direction of the document should be from ...
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putting a box around each line of text in a paragraph
In my environment I would like to automatically make a box around each individual line of text in a paragraph so that I can operate on each line. I think this should really be done in LaTeX rather ...
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How to write Persian/Arabic text in a LaTeX document which is mainly written in English?
Actually, I want to add some sentences in Arabic script inside my PhD thesis. Will it be possible just by adding some \usepackage statement in the preamble or need more than this? This is a bit tricky ...
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Can't type Hebrew with polyglossia
My ultimate goal is to create a beamer presentation in Hebrew. While toying with things, I got stuck with an error:
! Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'Hebrew@RL' undefined.
which is thrown on the ...
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RTL captions with newfloat?
Is it that the float package begins to show its age? I cannot get it to work right with XeLaTeX. Here is an example:
\documentclass{article} % compile with xelatex
\usepackage{float}
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The quickindex option is not working with xepersian package
I have installed TeXLive 2010 on Ubuntu 10.10,
when I try to compile a LaTeX file such as:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage[Kashida,quickindex]{xepersian}
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Aligning paragraph inside a tabular
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|p{5cm}|}
\hline
\textbf{item 1:} These are some texts to just fill in the first line.
\tabularnewline
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