Date:         Sat, 3 Jan 2004 15:37:47 +0200
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From:         Tzafrir Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Hebrew and fancyhdr.sty,
              and Hebrew and Wrapping text around figures (picins.sty)
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:19:11AM +0200, Amir Seginer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope this is the correct place to ask such questions. If not, please
> point me to the right place.
>
> I'm having trouble with two packages, when writing in Hebrew:
>
> Package fancyhdr.sty
> --------------------
>
> When using the fancyhdr.sty package, the right and left headers/footers
> some time change at some point/s in the document. I know that this depends
> on the specific content of the file (it is some times enough to erase one
> letter for this to occur), but I couldn't find what triggers this.
>
> Dekel Tzur once told me to choose the document language as Hebrew, but
> even that did not always solve the problem.

Can you post a minimal document that demonstrates this?

>
>
> Package pickins.sty:
> ----------------
>
> I am trying to wrap Hebrew text around figures in exercises I give my
> students. I have tried several packages, but have found that most
> (floatflt and wrapfig) have problems with the enumerate environment. So I
> use the picins package. This works fine, except for the fact that it has
> problems with the direction of hebrew, i.e. I get a space (for the figure)
> on the right, but the figures appears on the left, over the text (or vice
> verse).

The picture is actually inserted using postscript code. It seems that
the direction is chaned in TeX properly, but the postscript
iinstructions remain from left to right.

Though from a briff reading of picins.sty I can only see \put

>
> I managed to solve this by putting the following in my preamble:
>
> \usepackage{picins}
>
> % "patch" for picins. If given after picinpar command,
> % returns par style to normal after picinpar parahraph
> \makeatletter
> \def\endofparpic{\let\par=\old@par}
> \makeatother
>
> \pichskip{1cm}
> \newcommand{\hebparpic}[1]{
>   \settowidth{\picwidth}{\mbox{#1}}
>   \settoheight{\picheight}{\mbox{#1}}
>   \parpic(-\picwidth,\picheight)(-2\picwidth,\picheight)[r]{ #1}
>   \endofparpic
> }
>
> and then using \hebparpic instead of \parpic
>
> The problem is that the margins are all wrong. I have a feeling that the
> justfication is using English parameters instead of Hebrew ones.
>
> Any suggestions to solving these problems would be appreciated,
>
> Thanks,
>
>   Amir.
>
> P.S.
>
> I use:
>
> Lyx 1.2.1 (or 1.3.2)
> ivritex-1.1.2 (from rpm)
> tetex-1.0.7 (from rpm)

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