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As you can see in the picture, using Polyglossia to insert a snippet of Hebrew is giving me an unwanted space before the Hebrew insertion. And as you can see, it's not happening with Arabic, so it's not an RTL problem. It seems Polyglossia and Hebrew specific.

MWEoutput

Here is the code:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{fontspec}
    \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
    \newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Language=Hebrew]{Linux Libertine O}
    \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Scheherazade}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
    \setdefaultlanguage{english} 
    \setotherlanguage{hebrew}
    \setotherlanguage{arabic}   
\begin{document}

with Polyglossia (\texthebrew{זצ״ל})

no problem with Arabic (\textarabic{سلام‎})

or without Poly ({\addfontfeature{Language=Hebrew} {זצ״ל}})

\end{document}

I have already tried adding Script=Hebrew to the \hebrewfont definition, but the result is the same.

I have a big file full of Hebrew citations, and I have the impression this only started happening a few months or weeks ago — maybe a bug crept in? Any suggested fix will be highly appreciated, or am I missing something?

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  • I used your code and did not get any spaces with or without. Are you compiling with XeLaTeX?
    – Elad Den
    Apr 26, 2020 at 8:51
  • oh dear! Yes, XeLaTeX. I am using TexLive 2019, are you too? Polyglossia v.1.47 Apr 26, 2020 at 8:59
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    I have Texlive 2017 on my machine, and I also tried using Overleaf(which I think is on Texlive 2018), and was unable to reproduce.
    – Elad Den
    Apr 26, 2020 at 9:28
  • Checked again Overleaf is using Texlive 2019 polyglossia 1.46...
    – Elad Den
    Apr 26, 2020 at 9:35
  • Thank you. Very strange. I will check my log in detail, and test on other machines too. Apr 26, 2020 at 10:06

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Hoping it's useful, this solved it: after checking my installation and fiddling with fontspec options to no avail, I took a shot in the dark and downloaded from Github the most recent gloss-hebrew.ldf (I'm avoiding upgrading to TL2020 just yet)— and hey presto, problem solved.

I still don't know if there was just some unhappy conjunction of versions in my local folders, but the unwanted extra space has disappeared.

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