Wow... thx a ton. The \arfont and \elfont stuff is a result of the moving target state the branch is currently... I will correct that and write a specific test for it
Thanks a ton again /PA On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 at 10:04, Christian Moe <m...@christianmoe.com> wrote: > > Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paag...@gmail.com> writes: > > attached is an updated version of the multilingual demos that takes > > the evolution of the code into account. > > I'd really appreciate more people feel like giving it a look/try and > > providing feedback. > > Hi, > > Tested multi-polyglossia.org again on the updated feature branch. Looked > good! The Arabic is now properly cursive. (The commas are the wrong way > round, but I think that's from the ipsem-lorum source text used, and has > nothing to do with your code.) > > However, it turns out it's /not/ actually working as it should for > Arabic and Greek: the specified fonts are not used. This bug is masked > by the use of FreeSerif as the main font in the test document, since it > covers both scripts. If you change the main font in .dir-locals.el to a > Roman font that does not include these scripts, the Arabic and Greek > sections fail with boxes instead of glyphs. > > Xelatex complains: > > ! Package polyglossia Error: The current latin roman font does not > contain the "Arabic" script! (polyglossia) Please define \arabicfont > with \newfontfamily command. > > And ditto for Greek, but not for Devanagari. > > So the bug appears to be that the \newfontfamily commands in the > generated latex define =\arfont= and =\elfont= straight from the > two-letter codes, not the expected =\arabicfont= and =\greekfont=. > Changing these names in the exported .tex solves the problem. > > The other thing I see is that xelatex (but oddly not lualatex) complains > a lot that packages in org-latex-default-packages-alist are loaded after > bidi.sty (which is part of texlive-lang-arabic and a prerequisite). > Doesn't seem to cause any gross errors, but there may be subtle ones > (we'll need an Arabic-speaker to look it over eventually). > > Yours, > Christian -- Fragen sind nicht da, um beantwortet zu werden, Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden Georg Kreisler Sagen's Paradeiser, write BE! Year 1 of the New Koprocracy
