Re: [XeTeX] Arabic/Syriac script and Apparatus notes in Ednotes

2010-04-14 Thread Jens Bakker
Dear Vafa Khalighi, Thank you very much for your detailed answer. I admire very much your excellent work of software development. The problem with marginnote was also extant before the new version (1.0.6) of bidi. Until now I have not encountered any problems with \marginpar. But unfortunat

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic/Syriac script and Apparatus notes in Ednotes

2010-04-12 Thread Vafa Khalighi
So I suggest that you contact the author of marginnote package and ask him to fix this. It is not that I do not like this or I am not interested; it simply is because I as a human being have limited time, resources and energy and can not fix every single package. I think it seems fair that the auth

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic/Syriac script and Apparatus notes in Ednotes

2010-04-12 Thread Vafa Khalighi
In addition, it is not promised that \setLTRmarginpar also works for \marginnote. At present it gives the expected behaviour of \marginpar of standard latex. To have marginnote behaving same, one need to hack marginnote package as well. -- Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic/Syriac script and Apparatus notes in Ednotes

2010-04-12 Thread Vafa Khalighi
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Jens Bakker wrote: > Dear Vafa Khalighi, > > I have tried to use the package marginnote with the \marginnote{} command > instead of the \marginpar{} command in some Arabic text with the margin > notes in Latin script, and the margin notes are not put in the approp

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic/Syriac script and Apparatus notes in Ednotes

2010-04-12 Thread Jens Bakker
Dear Vafa Khalighi, I have tried to use the package marginnote with the \marginnote{} command instead of the \marginpar{} command in some Arabic text with the margin notes in Latin script, and the margin notes are not put in the appropriate place, sometimes they are outside the margin, i. e

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic/Syriac script and Apparatus notes in Ednotes

2010-04-11 Thread Vafa Khalighi
If you have the new version 1.0.6 of bidi that has been uploaded by Vafa Khalighi just recently, you may open the file critedtest1). > > Actually 1.0.7 is now on CTAN which fixes few other bugs, adds supports for several classes, implements primitive-like commands: \hboxR, \hboxL, \halignR, \hali

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic/Syriac script and Apparatus notes in Ednotes

2010-04-11 Thread Jens Bakker
Dear Adam McCollum, As an attachment there is an example source file with some Arabic text and two layers of footnotes created by the package manyfoot. There are also some features of critical editions - as line numbering which is created by the package lineno - as you can see. My example o

[XeTeX] Arabic/Syriac script and Apparatus notes in Ednotes

2010-04-11 Thread Adam McCollum
Greetings, I'm new to TeX, etc. (and this list) and I'm most interested in being able to work with Arabic and Syriac (occasionally Hebrew). I've been playing around some with Polyglossia and Ednotes. I know that ArabXeTeX can also be used, with input options of both transliteration and Un