Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem and pagenote packages

2011-10-03 Thread Heba Soliman
\pagenote comes from pagenote package, here is the content of the package, traditionalpoem with empty lines really has no problem but also pagenote with empty lines has no problem except when added in traditionalpoem environment. I will appreciate any help. Thanks %% %% This is file `pagenote.sty

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem and pagenote packages

2011-10-02 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
Where does \pagenote come from? I think the problem has nothing to do with bidipoem but the actual problem is because of the empty line that you put. To fix this, you should perhaps have \long\def\pagenote 2011/10/2 Heba Soliman > Dear All: > > I am trying to use a pagenote inside a traditio

[XeTeX] Bidipoem and pagenote packages

2011-10-02 Thread Heba Soliman
Dear All: I am trying to use a pagenote inside a traditional poetry, it works well if there are no empty lines, but if there is an empty line of "para" it makes error in processing. I tried to use \protect but it doesn't work. How can I solve this problem. \begin{document} \begin{traditionalpoe

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem Problem

2011-06-22 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Actually, this there is no issue for Persian users because they can use xepersian which provides Persian equivalent of TeX primitives and also Persian equivalents of many LaTeX commands and environments (This is heaps more than what ConTeXt has done, you even can perform your macro programming in P

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem Problem

2011-06-21 Thread Vafa Khalighi
visually you are right but I guess that it is typeset correctly but shows wrongly on texworks and that hs to to do with mixing RTL and LTR. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) < p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > Yes, you see what I see. But surely the > >{footn

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem Problem

2011-06-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Yes, you see what I see. But surely the {footnote{ cannot be correct ? The backslash that should introduce "\footnote" has detached itself from the control word and re-inserted itself between and the ?Arabic? text. ** Phil. Vafa Khalighi wrote: The attached image is what TeXworks o

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem Problem

2011-06-21 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Also if you want to typeset poems in footnotes, it is better to use tabular environment because firstly it gives no TeX capacity error and secondly footnote (which is the poem) is typeset better, without being centered. see attached. test.tex Description: TeX document test.pdf Description: Adob

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem Problem

2011-06-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
When I copy-and-paste the original into TeXworks, I don't get (on-screen) what I started with. Presumably this is because either my e-mail client (Seamonkey) or TeXworks (V0.4.0; R749) is doing something "wrong" with the ?Arabic? characters. In order that I can know which is "wrong", could someo

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem Problem

2011-06-21 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Hi Gareth Actually bidipoem knows how to handle footnotes in general so you actually do not need to use a combination of \footnotemark and footnotetext (see atached sample), however the situation that Heba is describing is more complex and a combination of \footnotemark and \footnotetext is neces

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem Problem

2011-06-21 Thread Gareth Hughes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/06/11 09:23, Heba Soliman wrote: > Dear All: > > I am typsetting a file with traditional poem and I have a problem that a > "traditionalpoem" within "footnote within traditionalpoem" doesn't work. > So, I will appreciate if anyone tells me how t

[XeTeX] Bidipoem Problem

2011-06-21 Thread Heba Soliman
Dear All: I am typsetting a file with traditional poem and I have a problem that a "traditionalpoem" within "footnote within traditionalpoem" doesn't work. So, I will appreciate if anyone tells me how to solve this issue. %% \documentclass{amsbook

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 12/10/2010 01:53, Gareth Hughes a écrit : Paul Isambert wrote: Ok, the following works on your file, but I don't know how robust it is: %%% \newcount\LineNumber \newcount\templinenumber \newdimen\linenumberskip \linenumberskip=6em \chardef\linestep=2 \def\poemlinenumber{% \advance\LineN

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-11 Thread Gareth Hughes
Paul Isambert wrote: > Ok, the following works on your file, but I don't know how robust it is: > > %%% > > \newcount\LineNumber \newcount\templinenumber > \newdimen\linenumberskip \linenumberskip=6em > \chardef\linestep=2 > \def\poemlinenumber{% > \advance\LineNumber1 > \templinenumber=\Line

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 10/10/2010 17:26, Gareth Hughes a écrit : Paul Isambert wrote: That one is harder. Line number are no simple matter with traditional TeX. Question: does bidipoem starts a new paragraph with every line? Then something might be doable with \everypar. Just try this in the poem environment: \eve

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Gareth Hughes
Paul Isambert wrote: > That one is harder. Line number are no simple matter with traditional TeX. > Question: does bidipoem starts a new paragraph with every line? Then > something might be doable with \everypar. > Just try this in the poem environment: \everypar{test}. If ``test'' > appears at the

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 10/10/2010 16:51, Gareth Hughes a écrit : Does anyone have any thoughts how line numbers might be handled in this bidipoem environment? None of the usual packages that provide line numbering play nicely, and I can't work out from the code how best to do it. That one is harder. Line number

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Gareth Hughes
Paul Isambert wrote: > Le 10/10/2010 14:16, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit : >> Paul, in which dialect(s) of TeX does \quitvmode exist ? >> >> Paul Isambert wrote: >> >>> \def\persona#1{% >>> \quitvmode\llap{\hbox to {#1\hfil}}% >>> } >> > > Oh, right. > Gareth, you should use \leavev

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 10/10/2010 14:16, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit : Paul, in which dialect(s) of TeX does \quitvmode exist ? Paul Isambert wrote: \def\persona#1{% \quitvmode\llap{\hbox to {#1\hfil}}% } Oh, right. Gareth, you should use \leavevmode instead of \quitvmode, which is a pdfTeX pri

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Paul, in which dialect(s) of TeX does \quitvmode exist ? Paul Isambert wrote: \def\persona#1{% \quitvmode\llap{\hbox to {#1\hfil}}% } ** Phil. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 10/10/2010 00:48, Gareth Hughes a écrit : Gareth Hughes wrote: As you can see from my attached example, the persona is included as a part of the first hemistich, but to make the lines look nice it is also included in the following three hemistiches within \phantom{} commands. I also need to

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-09 Thread Gareth Hughes
Gareth Hughes wrote: > As you can see from my attached example, the persona is included as a > part of the first hemistich, but to make the lines look nice it is also > included in the following three hemistiches within \phantom{} commands. > I also need to set \poemcolsep to -1em to close the 'pha

[XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-09 Thread Gareth Hughes
Shlama Mezdathkane (Hi XeTeXnicians)! I'm using bidipoem to set some Syriac dialogue poems. I'm using the traditionalpoem environment as each line is fourteen syllable long with a caesura after the seventh syllable. So far, so good. However, as it's a dialogue poem the speaker changes every other

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem

2010-05-19 Thread Gareth Hughes
Vafa Khalighi wrote: > Hi Gareth Hi Vafa! > the bidipoem package is indeed intended for typesetting modern and > traditional Persian poems and may not be suitable for typesetting poems in > other scripts. Perhaps, if I were to typeset the Touma Audo's famous Syriac translation of the Ruba'iyat o

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem

2010-05-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.05.2010 um 02:47 schrieb Vafa Khalighi: Could you please send a minimal example and what font should I use for this script? Fonts with Syriac support come with X11: the Beth Mardutho (Serto, Estrangelo, East Syriac) fonts in /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/SyrCOM*. http://www.bethmardut

[XeTeX] Bidipoem

2010-05-18 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Hi Gareth the bidipoem package is indeed intended for typesetting modern and traditional Persian poems and may not be suitable for typesetting poems in other scripts. I think that I have not understood your problem correctly and I do not know how I should typeset Syriac with xetex.fontspec compla

[XeTeX] Bidipoem

2010-05-18 Thread Gareth Hughes
Dear all, and especially وفا, I'm using bidipoem's traditionalpoem environment to typeset a Syriac madrasha. The metre of many madrashe mixes couplets, which are usually set on a single line with a gap between the two halves, and single lines. Traditional poem is great at setting the couplets, but