Re: Going round in circles with latex output

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Jun 06 2017, Lyndon Drake wrote:
> Part of the problem is that if I set lang and otherlangs as 
> follows:
>
>   lang: en-GB
>   otherlangs: [he, sy]
>   
> I get this:
>
> ! Package bidi Error: Oops! you have loaded package longtable 
> after bidi 
> packag
>
> e. Please load package longtable before bidi package, and then 
> try to run 
> xelatex on your document again.
>
>
> which I guess means that some kind of strange interaction in the 
> latex 
> template is producing an undesirable latex file to feed to 
> xelatex (maybe 
> pandoc-csv2table is doing something to the produced latex?).

No, the template is structured in such a way that polyglossia is 
loaded before longtable, but polyglossia loads bidi in order to 
deal with RTL languages such as Syriac.

I think your best bet would be to modify the default template and 
load the other languages somewhere toward the end of the preamble, 
after longtable and any other packages are loaded. But you'll need 
to know some LaTeX and understand how Pandoc's template language 
works in order to do that.

In actual fact, though, this may be something John needs to think 
about, because the default LaTeX template obviously has a problem 
here.

HTH

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Joost Kremers
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