These files produced directly by the GIT version of LyX. As you can see, the braces are the inverted in both the PDF and the TeX files.
Ronen.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Ronen Abravanel <ron...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. you are right. one can do that, and it would be a nice workaround. But
> I prefer lyx will produce clean TeX file.
> 2. Attached some examples:
> the text in the *xetex and *pdf files are identical. in the pdf, you can
> see that the braces are rendered backword, and also if you will open the
> .tex file in unicode-enables editor.
>
>
> note: I cheated a little. In my work-computer I have lyx 2.1 development
> version, and the xetex file compiled straight forward. In my lyx 2.03 in my
> laptop, I had to move one line in the preamble.
>
>
> Ronen
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net>wrote:
>
>> On 2012-07-12, Ronen Abravanel wrote:
>>
>> > as the Hebrew support of LaTeX is not developed for the last several
>> > years, I decided to try and export Hebrew document to PDF using XeTeX,
>>
>> Are there problems that did not get solved for years, or is there no
>> development because it "just works"?
>>
>> > where the grate Bidi packge by Vafa Khalighi is under active
>> > development, and merged in polyglossia.
>>
>> > LyX 2.0 support XeTeX support, but there are some slight problem:
>>
>> > 1. when exporting to regular latex, one should wrap "english" text
>> (like
>> > numbers, math, etc..) inside Hebrew parts by \L{.,, }.
>>
>> Do you do this with raw LaTeX (ERT) or is there an inset for the task
>> (should be easy to write one if its not already there).
>>
>> > not true in XeTeX. Attached an ugly patch that removes such \L, but:
>> > a. it's pretty ugly. I'm sure there is better way to do it. I will be
>> happy
>> > for suggestions about ways to improve it.
>>
>> For documents that shall work in both, pdflatex and xelatex, it might be
>> best to have a dummy definition like
>>
>> \ifxetex
>> \providecommand*{\L}[1]{#1}
>> \fi
>>
>> either in the documents LaTeX preamble or in the module defining the text
>> inset).
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > 2. LyX making some problems with the braces { } ( ) etc in Right-to-left
>> > parts:
>> > When one writes Right-to-left text that should look like
>> > (1) text ( inside braces ) more text
>> > it outputs as
>> > (2) text ) inside braces ( more text
>> > or, to be more accurate,
>> > עברית ( עוד טקסט this part is INSIDE עוד טקסט ) בחוץ this part is
>> outside
>> > . בחוץ
>> > Will be output as
>> > עברית ) עוד טקסט this part is INSIDE עוד טקסט ( בחוץ this part is
>> outside
>> > . בחוץ
>> > It all looks OK when rendering using pdflatex, but using XeTeX, it
>> appears
>> > wrong.
>> > I couldn't find the part in LyX that handle that part. I will be happy
>> for
>> > directions regarding where to look.
>>
>> I don't know a solution for this part. It looks like the two engines do
>> not agree on whether ( and ) are "opening" vs. "closing" or "right" vs.
>> "left" parantheses.
>>
>> You may try to create a minimal *.tex exampe file that works with XeTeX
>> and import this to LyX or try to recreate the correct syntax in LyX
>> (comparing the View>Source output with the correct XeTeX source).
>>
>> Günter
>>
>>
>
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