I am not sure what is the actual problem but I can tell you what bidi does. bidi does the following:
1- makes l and r logical such that l means always left and r always means right (in both RTL and LTR). 2- bidi automatically puts tikzpicture and pspicture envoronments in LTR mode mainly for two reasons: a) RTL picture environment does not make sense. b) XeTeX in RTL mode, with \special has bugs and tikz and pstricks both uses \special so we have no other choice but putting pspicture and tikzpicture inside LTR mode. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Nathan Sidoli <nathan.sid...@utoronto.ca>wrote: > I realize this is not strictly speaking a XeTeX issue, but I am typesetting > a critical edition of an Arabic text using XeLaTeX with the ednotes package > and I want to be able to make the diagrams for the text using either > pstricks or TikZ so that the Arabic fonts can be changed in the text and > diagrams simply by toggling the initial font setting. > > When I load either of these graphics packages, however, the line numbers in > the margins of the Arabic text disappear. > > Has any one had a similar problem? Can any one think of a possible > solution? > > I can work on a minimal example, but it will probably not be that minimal. > > > > ------------------------------**-------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > > http://tug.org/mailman/**listinfo/xetex<http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex> >
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