Date:         Sat, 3 Jan 2004 00:19:11 +0200
Reply-To:     Hebrew TeX list <[log in to unmask]>
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From:         Amir Seginer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Hebrew and fancyhdr.sty,
              and Hebrew and Wrapping text around figures (picins.sty)
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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.


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).

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)