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polyglossia or bidi bug: [\d\.] gets inverted to [\.\d]
bidi tests for \if@Latin, so you can get around the problem by setting it to true:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
\makeatletter\@Latintrue\makeatother
\...
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Oops! you have loaded package pgf after bidi package
You are probably not loading pgf directly; it's more likely that you are loading tikz or pgfplots, or some other package that depends on tikz. Just make sure you load this before loading bidi. Since ...
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A problem with Hebrew and English underlined text
Put the \textenglish{aaa} block inside the same \uline:
\documentclass[a4paper,numbers=noenddot]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\PassOptionsToPackage{normalem}{ulem}
\usepackage{ulem}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%...
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tikz: Right to left text within text along path
As it has been mentioned already, the reverse text effect described in the TikZ manual is what you are looking for.
However, you also want to first group the letters using the group letters effect, ...
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Order of words disturbed by using polyglossia with rtl language?
That looks like a bug in bidi (egreg thinks) but you can force things back with \beginL
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% don't use fontenc with xetex
\usepackage{amsmath}
\...
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How can I defer the loading of the bidi package?
Usually it's OK to do
\AtBeginDocument{\usepackage{bidi}}
but if for some reason that doesn't work for you an alternative would be to just document to your users that they should load the package in ...
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Inverted parentheses in RTL text in LuaLaTeX
You can use babel. As of version 3.19, you don't even have to mark up for simple things. See §1.27 of the babel manual.
%! TEX program = lualatex
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage[nil,bidi=basic]...
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File `bidi.sty' not found
Since you are using Debian's packages for TeXLive, you need to install the package which contains bidi.sty. You can search for a file at packages.debian.org. If you do this, you will find that bidi....
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6
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Mixing Hebrew and English bibliographies?
An approach using XeLaTeX with polyglossia and biblatex.
%\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{EnglishExample,
title={Example},
author={John ...
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Matching alignment of two minipages
Phew, sends you dizzy working out which end is the start of the line:-)
The problem is not indentation but space tokens making horizontal space. A couple in your document (added % but mostly in the ...
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Suppress `bidi`'s logo when using `polyglossia`
As long as you load bidi after loading polyglossia but before using any polyglossia commands that would load it as well (essentially any language setting commands), you can pass the logo=off option ...
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Longtable and tikz
longtable has changed. When a color package is loaded (as it does when you use tikz) then it inserts an additional \color@begingroup. But the bidi code doesn't contain yet the needed correction. Until ...
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bidi package fail with recent version of multicol
You could try this (but there is lots of guessing involved, so I don't know if it will also work in more complicated cases):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\...
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5
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Creating a LaTeX Table from a Microsoft Word Document
As it turns out, using a table that spans across pages and is also enclosed in the multicol environment is almost impossible.
I managed to do everything, except making the table span two columns in ...
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Order of words disturbed by using polyglossia with rtl language?
It's what I think to be a bug in amstext-xetex-bidi.def (part of the bidi bundle) that does
\ProvidesFile{amstext-xetex-bidi.def}[2013/04/04 v0.1 bidi adaptations for amstext package for XeTeX engine]...
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Arabic/Russian interlinear text
Since you need to have your \gla lines be in Arabic and you want those lines to be set RTL, it's best to set the whole example in an {Arabic} environment, and then make the other gloss lines to use ...
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bidi, RTL and \write
You were lucky that 1 got output, if you use
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bidi}
\begin{document}
\showoutput
\RTL
\leavevmode\newwrite\toto
\openout\toto=\jobname.sty
\write\toto{1}ssss
\write\...
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List environments in ArabLuaTeX
Thank you for this report.
I have to confess that list environments have slipped my mind so far! Very sorry about that. The next release of arabluatex, which I hope to publish soon, will support ...
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ConTeXt: How to typeset Arabic text?
[Disclaimer: Neither do I speak arabic nor do I have any understanding of the arabic script.]
I copied the relevant stuff to setup the arabic font from ara-sty.tex. That is the font features and ...
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5
votes
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Bidi algorithm and xelatex
Using lualatex and babel
I recently discovered that babel use basic support for this using lualatex. You still have to use \selectlanguage{hebrew} to switch to a RTL paragraph, but inline bidi seems ...
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5
votes
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bidi: Strange error tkz-tab package with texlive 2018
tkz-tab loads etex.sty. If I prevent this the document compiles fine:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\expandafter\def\csname [email protected]\endcsname{}
\usepackage{tkz-tab}
...
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4
votes
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Numbers in multi-language document
Here your code with polyglossia which require XeLaTeX engine
First you set default language with \setdefaultlanguage[calendar=gregorian,numerals=maghrib]{arabic}, option numerals=maghrib for ...
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How to force source code to be written LTR in a RTL document?
In your case better use of
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic, Scale=1.2]{Amiri}
\newfontfamily\arabicfonttt{Courier New}
Rather then
\setmainfont[Script=Arabic, Scale=1.2]{Amiri}
\...
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Can I make polyglossia use the old-style Hebrew fonts?
I strongly recommend that you not use the Hebrew toolchain from the ’90s. It’s a rigmarole even to install these days.
You already know how you can use any OpenType font that covers Hebrew, such as ...
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How can I defer the loading of the bidi package?
Sit tight and at the end of this answer all will be resolved and packages will be loaded in just the order they like.
Phase 1: From bidi deferral to polyglossia deferral
You are likely failing to ...
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votes
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longtable package: Stretch height of last row on page "RTL document"
Interesting, seems you need to put \pdfsavepos after the \write not before it (in input file order)
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[showframe,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{longtable}
\...
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xelatex: bidi problems with RTL character placing
You can get the output you want like this (^^^^202d is the left-to-right-override U+202D):
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmonofont{Courier New}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\...
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4
votes
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tufte-book & Tectonic (XeTeX) & bidi / polyglossia don't get along
It's a combined problem.
The tufte-book.cls loads tufte-common.def that, when XeLaTeX as processing engine is detected, does \RequirePackage{xltxtra}, which used to be recommended several years ago, ...
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How can I get csquotes and babel to set a display environment RTL (for Hebrew or Syriac)?
I'll turn my comment into an answer because I've found a workaround.
The problem here is csquotes switches the language with otherlanguage*, which it’s just a version as environment of \...
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