Comment 15 for bug 580794

Pete, totally understandable about the exams. I just finished a May-term intensive so we're in the same boat.

David, thanks for the guidance. I managed to get it to do a XeLaTeX compile via TeXShop. I found there were two instances of a bidi load: one in sblessay.cls and another in sbllangbase.sty. I turned this code into comment with the '%':

% Test for unicode support (through Xetex), and so make sure bidi
% is loaded before xunicode.
%\expandafter\ifx\csname XeTeXpicfile\endcsname\relax
%\else
% \RequirePackage{bidi}
% \RequirePackage{xunicode}
%\expandafter\fi

and made sure xltxtra loaded before bidi in sbllangbase.sty. I also stumbled upon the need to save the file as a UTF-8 Unicode file instead of a TeX file.

So far so good. :-)

JohnDave