Re: Building format with TeX [and Omega]

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:47 AM 9/15/00 CEST, Behnam Tabatabai wrote:

>Appropos Omega:
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>I have already tried the Omega specific commands (direction switching 
>commands and OTP's) in some small Context documents and the results are very 
>good: I used the Omega commands "\pagedir TRT" etc. for right-to-left, as 
>well as a chain of OTP's for mapping from ISIRI (8-bit standard for Persian) 
>to Unicode, context analysis, etc., for some Persian text. I was very 
>impressed by the results!
>
>Unfortunately I know too little about Context/TeX to be able to set up by my 
>own a clean language environment for Farsi (and other right-to-left scripts 
>like Arabic and Hebrew) using these features. However if somebody starts 
>that, I would be very happy to contribute my part (at least to the language 
>specific issues).

I can look into that if I have the resources (fonts and so). One thing to
sort out [i did some experiments with etex] is to get color things and so
right, due to special swapping. No big deal, once i know the problems at
hand.  

Where can I find the (really) latest omega specs? [since i also want to
look into the tex->xml part]

Hans
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