Dear Herbert Schulz, dear Peter Dyballa, Thank you very much for your fast and very helpful replies. I have chosen the solution of Herbert Schulz, because, for the time being, such a file can also run on a computer that has the updated version of bidi.
Thanks al lot again, with best wishes and best regards, Jens Bakker Am 16.11.2012 um 00:56 schrieb Herbert Schulz: > > On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Herbert Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Jens Bakker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, >>> >>> I would like to ask you for help, please: I have just updated TeX Live by >>> TeX Live Utility, and suddenly all my files that I have written with >>> polyglossia using the language Arabic and the package perpage do not >>> compile, while they just compiled a few minutes ago correctly. >>> >>> The attached minimal example seems to prove that it does not compile when >>> the package perpage is used, because if \usepacke{perpage} is outcommented, >>> the text compiles. >>> >>> What can I do? >>> >>> Thank you very much for your interest, >>> Jens Bakker >> >> >> Howdy, >> >> The console error message should tell you all you need to know: >> >> \usepackage{polyglossia} >> \setmainlanguage{arabic} >> \newfontfamily\arabicfont{Scheherazade} >> >> Good Luck, >> >> Herb Schulz >> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) > > > Howdy, > > Sorry, I forgot to uncomment the \usepackage{perpage} and that gave an error > message. However, If I moved the perpage package after the font commands it > seems to work fine. > > %%!TEX TS-program = xelatexmk > \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{article} > > \usepackage{polyglossia} > \setmainlanguage{arabic} > \newfontfamily\arabicfont{Geeza Pro} > > \usepackage{perpage} > > \begin{document} > جاء زيد إلى عمرو > \end{document} > > (I don't have Scheherazade so I am using Geeza Pro on my Mac.) > > Good Luck, > > Herb Schulz > (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
