bidi package incompatible

[mbertucci47]

The bidi package patches many, many things, so the list of incompatibilities here is definitely not exhaustive.

• In Acrobat, many tags in the example below are empty when they should contain text.
• Footnotes produce a warning Package tagpdf Warning: something is wrong with the mcid--rerun
• The output of right-to-left lists is wrong
• The package warns

Package bidi Warning: Patching '\begin' failed!
(bidi)                '\bidi@AtBeginEnvironment' will not work.

Package bidi Warning: Patching '\begin' failed!
(bidi)                '\bidi@BeforeBeginEnvironment' will not work.

• With hyperref, everything in the document is a hyperlink.

Here's an example:

\DocumentMetadata
  {
    lang=en-US,
    pdfversion=2.0,
    pdfstandard=ua-2,
    testphase={phase-III,math,title,table,firstaid}
  }
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath} % has to be loaded before bidi
\usepackage{hyperref} % has to be loaded before bidi
\usepackage[
  RTLdocument,
%  extrafootnotefeatures,
  ]{bidi}

%\threecolumnfootnotes
%\paragraphfootnotes

\begin{document}

text\footnote{a footnote}

text\footnote{another footnote}

\begin{equation}
a=b
\end{equation}

\begin{enumerate} % output is wrong
\item first item
\item second item
\begin{LTRitems}
\item first LTR item
\item second LTR item
\end{LTRitems}
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}