On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:58:16AM -0400, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > I seem to have some problems using \colorbox from the xcolor package (or the
> > color package) with hebrew text in latex.
> >
> > The solution I found was:
> >
> > \L{\colorbox{gray!30}{\R{<hebrew text>}}}
> >
> > which seems rather awkward (the need to add \L and \R). Without these the
> > text
> > doesn't show up. Is this a know problem, and is there a more elegant way to
> > solve this?
>
> The problem is that th color is added with some postscript commands in
> some sort of post-processing.
>
> Normally you have:
>
> \colorbox{color}{some text}
>
> translated to:
>
> <start color>some text<reset color>
>
> where <start color> and <reset color> are postscript directives.
>
> In a "Hebrew" context you get:
>
> \colorbox{color}{HEBREW TEXT}
>
> will become (on paper)
>
> <reset color>TXET WERBEH<start color>
>
> Thus the trick you use guarantees the correct order of postscript
> directives around Hebrew text.
.. which, in a perfect world, would be done by a babel-aware colorbox.
--
Dan Kenigsberg http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken ICQ 162180901
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