Dear Maintainer,

Beginning sometime this year, using Hebrew with babel in LuaTeX results in
positioning errors.

2023.20240207-1 worked properly, but one of the three 2024 updates introduced
these regressions. I'm not sure which. I can look into it if you'd like me to.

I imagine the problem comes from upstream.

I'm working on a true MVE, but here's my reallife example:

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Abba\ldots look, Abba is an etymological knot on which I don't today intend to
pull the string.
\begin{hebrew}אָב\end{hebrew} isn't quite right, but \textarabic{ﺄَﺑ} is
unexpected.
Aramaic \begin{hebrew}אבא\end{hebrew}would just further confuse the issue.
***********

This used to render up as expected, which we can define as "all text was
reproduced". Using the current hebrew.sty, we get:

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Abba…look, Abba is an etymological knot on which I don’t today intend to pull
the string. ‫ב‬‫ָא‬
further confuse the issue.
***********

This seems independent of surrounding text and placement on the page. Like I
said, I'm preparing a true minimum viable example. Let me know what else I can
provide.

On 09.07.2024 13:02, Nick Black (Public gmail account) wrote:

Hi,

I don't really have the time to care about upstream issues. I plan to
upload a new CTAN Snapshot, so there is a chance that the issue gets
solved soon. Alternatively you may install the latest babel into your
local texmf tree and tell me if the issue got solved.

Thanks,
   Hilmar

On 09.07.2024 13:02, Nick Black (Public gmail account) wrote:

Hi,

I've uploaded a new snapshot of texlive-base/-lang/-extra, which should
enter testing soon. Please be so kind to test.

Hilmar