[XeTeX] Package background usage in XeLaTeX

[RD Holkar]

Hi,

@Urlike Fischer and Zdenek- yes, you are right. I removed the extra tikz
package and I could get the vertical rules; see the attachment. There are
still a similar issue with another document; I shall write once I get
details of it.
@Zdenek Wagner <https://plus.google.com/u/1/106075650385658344372?prsrc=4>-
I could not make this trick work; may be I am making a mistake.
@Wilfred van Rooijen- sorry that this is not a MWE.

Thank you all!

With best regards,
-Rohit.

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:

> Am Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:21:17 +0530 schrieb RD Holkar:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am typesetting a memoir in Marathi using package Polyglossia. I found
> > that the package Background behaves strangely when used with XeLaTeX.
> >
> > I am attaching an example in English which is clearly a (La)TeX file (I
> can
> > send the file that uses Polyglossia if needed). I want two vertical lines
> > on the left and right side of the page (attachment- Background-LaTeX).
> When
> > I use the package background and run LaTeX, I get the desired output.
> > However, when I run XeLaTeX on the same file, I get a displaced lines.
> > Moreover, I tried to place the lines by trial and error method, but, it
> > seems that the distortion is not linear.
>
> > \SetBgContents{
> > \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
>
> the background packages already uses tikzpicture and puts the
> contents in a node. So you are basically nesting one tikzpicture in
> another.
>
> This can work, but it can also fail. See e.g.
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/46598/problem-with-
> overlay-when-a-tikzpicture-is-inside-another-tikzpicture
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/398734/whats-wrong-
> with-nested-tikzpicture-and-xelatex
>
> and more.
>
> So I wouldn't use the background package for this. Use e.g. eso-pic
> to insert the drawing.
>
>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>
>
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