[XeTeX] Restoring text to the default English font in Latex/fontspec/Bidi

[sjo]

On 9/17/07, François Charette <firmicus at ankabut.net> wrote:
> ...
> \newenvironment{Hebrew}{\setRL\ezra}{\unsetRL}
> ...
> Regards,
>
> François
>

Dear François:

Thank you for your help. The Hebrew environment works well. Is there a
way to define a \newfontfamily for the standard CMR fonts so that we
can always reset it that way?

Also, I have discovered that there is a problem with footnotes in
Hebrew. The little file below shows the problem (PDF attached).

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode,xltxtra}
\usepackage{bidi}
\newfontfamily\ezra[Script=Hebrew]{Ezra SIL}
\newenvironment{Hebrew}{\setRL\ezra}{\unsetRL}
\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{\vspace{4mm}\rule{\textwidth}{.09mm}\vspace{1mm}}
\begin{document}

Hello in English\footnote{This is an english footnote}.

Let's try some Hebrew.

\begin{Hebrew}
תוכנת\footnote{אלו עולות אלפי שקלים, וכן קשה מ}
\end{Hebrew}

We are back in English. If we look at the PDF we see the English
footnote 1 is fine but not the Hebrew footnote 2. The footnotenumber
appears but not the Hebrew content of the footnote.

Also, without the renewcommand to redefine the footnoterule, the line
separating the main text from the footnote area overlaps text.

\end{document}

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Thanks ... Jon
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