Greetings-
I had been using XeLaTeX to typeset a Hebrew textbook I'm working on; but once
I started introducing media9 buttons into RTL text, I ran into difficulty. The
solution posed was a kind of hack described here:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/188434/media-button-in-rtl, I.e. To run
LuaLaTex but trick polyglossia into thinking it was using XeTeX's bidi when in
fact it was luabidi. So I've been using luaTeX the last few months with
success, but of course I was waiting for this to bite me....
...which lately it has. I understand that ordinarily I should offer an MWE
highlighting the problem, but in this case that is likely to be difficult, so
let me try to describe the problem.
Briefly, I haver found lately that \texthebrew{} commands were swallowing the
following space, which I patched by adding a \ after the command; but more
recently I've noticed (maybe it was happening before and I just didn't see it)
that after a \texthebrew{} we don't get back to LTR mode properly, so that the
remainder of a paragraph can end up right justified.
I suppose this is because of some updates to polyglossia or bidi, or
alternatively lack thereof to luabidi. I wonder whether anyone can suggest
approaches I can investigate to get back on the road? (possibly rolling back
updates to polyglossia or bidi, but I don't know how to do that....)
With thanks,
K
Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, PhD | 2-139 Department of History | Wilfrid Laurier
University | 75 University Avenue West | Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
