[XeTeX] Polyglossia issue with fancyhdr

[François Charette]

Meho R. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I noticed a strange issue with fancyhdr package when used 
> with polyglossia declared in document. I noticed that I'm not able to 
> manipulate with font's specs, no way to change font or make it italic 
> or smallcaps. Anyone knows what's the catch? How to overcome this problem?
>
This could well be a bug. But you can overcome it with the option 
nolocalmarks, to turn off "localization" of \markboth and \markright:

  \usepackage[nolocalmarks]{polyglossia}

Hope it helps,
FC

> I'm posting minimal working example for testing purposes. You'll 
> notice that headers should be smallcaps, but only "manual" header is 
> in smallcaps, while the "leftmark" is not. You may try with italic or 
> bold, but header remains the same.
>
> If you comment out \setmainlanguage, everything's fine.
>
> Here's code:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> \documentclass[a5paper,10pt,pagesize]{scrbook}
> \usepackage{lipsum}
> \usepackage{fancyhdr}
> \pagestyle{fancy}
> \fancyhf{}
> \fancyhead[LE,RO]{\footnotesize\thepage}
> \fancyhead[EC]{\nouppercase{\footnotesize\scshape Test}}
> \fancyhead[OC]{\nouppercase{\footnotesize\scshape\leftmark}}
> \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
>
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont{Minion Pro}% or any other .otf font
>
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setmainlanguage{english}
> \setotherlanguage{arabic}
>
> \begin{document}
> \chapter{Test Chap.}
> \section{Test Sec.}
>
> \lipsum[1-20]
> \end{document}
>
>
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