Comment 16 for bug 580794

Hi JohnDave,

can you send the output of
    svn diff?
from the directory containing sblessay.cls?

It still doesn't work on my system with loading xltxtra before bidi, I
have to load bidi before xltxtra :(.

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:45:36AM -0000, JohnDave Medina wrote:
> 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
>

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