Comment 17 for bug 580794

Do we need it in sblessay, or should we stick to having it in sbllangbase?
 Are those packages referenced directly in sblessay somewhere?

~~ Robert.

On 29 May 2010 03:03, David Purton <email address hidden> wrote:

>
> 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
> >
>
> --
> David Purton
> <email address hidden>
>
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>
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> Problems compiling with Hebrew
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580794
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> Bug description:
> I am having problems using sblclass to compile with Hebrew. Here is my
> setup:
>
> - Mac OS X 10.5.8
> - SBL Hebrew font installed
> - MacTeX Installation – the most recent (just a few days ago)
> - All the packages that were present in TeX Live 2009
> - TeXShop with the LaTeX option; have also tried to make file with XeTeX
> and XeLaTeX
> - All the .sty and .cls files have been placed in the
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex directory; other directories were created as
> directed on R. Fischer's wikipage
>
> I have tried using \begin{hebrew} WXYZ \end{hebrew} and also the \he{wxyz}
> options to input Hebrew and it continues to give me an error.
>
> I have tried entering WXYZ as both Hebrew characters and English letter -
> both to no avail. The compile always terminates. Typing in Greek does just
> fine.
>
>
>