[XeTeX] bidi & eso-pic are broken

[Vafa Khalighi]

This is not bidi issue but how the picture environment works (that is what
eso-pic package uses internally). Your horizontal reference point is where
the line starts (left in LTR and right in RTL). When you give
a horizontal co-ordinate to \put for example, what you do is just \kern
<horizontal co-ordinate>, etc.


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:00:36PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> > Am Wed, 5 Jun 2013 22:42:37 +0200 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 07:14:06PM +0400, Fahad Al-Saidi wrote:
> > >> I am now using pretest texLive 2013 to test and use the new features
> in
> > >> xetex. However, when I use bidi & eso-pic together the page layout is
> > >> broken. There is a big white space in the right side of the page.
>  Since
> > >> wallpaper package uses eso-pic & polyglossia uses bidi package, the
> problem
> > >> occurs whenever they are used together.
> > >
> > > I don't see any big white space, can you attach your output PDF file?
> > > (mine attached).
> >
> > I see the white space in your pdf (and also in my tests): The rose
> > on the third page is moved to the left and not centered on the
> > background like in the first page.
>
> I see now, I looked only into the first page.
>
> > The amound of displacement depends on the margins of the document.
> >
> > I see the problem with bidi v12.2 (TL12) and v13.5 (miktex + TL13).
>
> So it is a bidi issue.
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
>
>
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