[ekdosis] font issue in \note*

[Robert Alessi]

Hi Juan,

Thank you very much for the report.  This glitch is now fixed.

So there is another person in the Alpha-Quadrant of the galaxy who's
using parnotes inside critical notes besides myself.  Good to know!

I think I will push to CTAN an updated version of ekdosis later on
today.  But meanwhile, you can 'robustify' macros to avoid premature
expansion, like so: "\robustify{\textit}".

I attach here the documentation as it stands at the time of writing.
I think that you might be interested in such options as \SetLTRapp,
direction = RL/LR, and the like.

And as a bonus, a sample "test-ekdosis-arabic.tex"  Here's what you
could do with it:
1. Install tidy <http://www.html-tidy.org>
2. Open a terminal and compile this file like so:
   lualatex --shell-escape test-ekdosis-arabic.tex (three times)
3. Open the resulting PDF
4. Return to the terminal.  You will see that arabluatex will have
   produced a new file: "test-ekdosis-arabic_out.tex" with Unicode
   Arabic in place of arabtex ASCII encoding.
5. Compile this file again with --shell-escape : you will now have
   "test-ekdosis-arabic_out_out.tex" with to more arabtex strings to
   be converted.
6. Final step:
   a. Compile "test-ekdosis-arabic_out_out.tex" three times:
      lualatex --shell-escape test-ekdosis-arabic_out_out.tex
   b. Open the resulting PDF file and see that it is the same as the
      first one.
   c. Open test-ekdosis-arabic_out_out-tei.xml
7. Enjoy.

Best,

Robert

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 01:02:11AM +0100, Juan Acevedo wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> I assume you have been busy working on the documentation and other ekdosis related matters, so I just send this for when you have time to look into it. 
> 
> I have been geting used to the package, experimenting with a setup for an English critical edition of an Arabic text (with ArabLuaTeX). 
> 
> Here below is a minimal example,
> 
> ===========MWE
> 
> %!TEX TS-program = lualatex
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> \documentclass{book}
> \usepackage[nomath]{libertinus-otf} 
> \usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
> \usepackage[novoc]{arabluatex}
> 	\newfontfamily\arabicfont{Amiri}[Script=Arabic]
> 	\SetArbEasy
> \usepackage[parnotes]{ekdosis}
> 
> \begin{document}
> \begin{alignment}
> 
> \begin{edition}\begin{arab}[novoc]   
> wa-_dakarnAhumA fI 
> \app{\lem{al-nUnIyaT}%
> 	\note*{\LR{This citation from \textit{Nūnīyah} is common}}} 
> %	\note*{\LR{This citation from {\itshape Nūnīyah} is common}}}  % this works 
> \end{arab}\end{edition}
> 
> 	\begin{translation}
> And we mentioned them…
> 	\end{translation}
> \end{alignment}
> \end{document}
> %======================
> 
> I am getting this error message:
> 
> ./xetest.tex:25: Argument of \reserved at a has an extra }.
> <inserted text> 
> \par 
> l.25 \end
>        {edition}
> 
> But there is no error if I use {\itshape } inside the \note*{}. The error is triggered by using \emph{} or \textit{}
> 
> Aside from this, very happy new users here, and, just so you know, we'll be very grateful for anything you can do in the future to cater for a \LR apparatus under a \RL text, or any advice on such a setup. No hurry!
> 
> Many thanks,
> Juan
> 
> 
> 

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