From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24081 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Otared KAVIAN Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: FarsiTeX equivalent? Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:43:19 +0100 Message-ID: <3cb063a60512031243tcabb7bbu5f523c3d3a0e147c@mail.gmail.com> References: <200512010728.01757.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133642639 32381 80.91.229.2 (3 Dec 2005 20:43:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Dec 03 21:43:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EieEC-0000kr-P7 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:43:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B34127BA; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:43:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07378-07; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:43:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060F01279D; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:43:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C66311279D for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:43:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07471-05-4 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:43:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.204]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA8C12798 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:43:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id y38so342390nfb for ; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:43:19 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZwnKbFl7IsFD5SWpDAyta3NJ9yV3flq9XGDuHBA2EM5zX+kJUc7TY4vUnANEQowApXMSlng5a8UhZO1WBTKbV8ttv0PjOwF6gFsLuB8Nfc6HEQvB8lN5c6Jmo2UUIlVsteAeeUnw46Zm7E2unbPLVmJXH6d3mYWVKz9jOIMqza0= Original-Received: by 10.49.4.2 with SMTP id g2mr570067nfi; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:43:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.127.15 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 12:43:19 -0800 (PST) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200512010728.01757.john@wexfordpress.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24081 Archived-At: Hi John, I know that some people in Iran set up a nice bidirectional TeX engine, called "FarsiTeX" or "ParsiTeX", but as you say in your message it works only with LaTeX and on Windows (and on Unix systems for a paid version). Unfortunately it seems that it is not maintained anymore, at least as far as I know. However, if your acquaintance uses MacOS X, there is a very nice solution for bidirectional TeX: using XeTeX, either under PlainTeX, or together with ConTeXt (or LaTeX) it is quite easy to typeset multilingual texts in all directions (Left to Right, Right to Left, and even very recently for Up to Bottom--Right to Left as it is done in some Chinese books). I use to some extent XeTeX together with ConTeXt (getting a format called sometimes "XeConTeXt") to write Farsi, and the result is quite nice. For more informations on XeTeX, developped and maintained by Jonathan Kew, see http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=3Dnrsi&item_id=3Dxetex and for using XeTeX with ConTeXt (made possible thanks to hans Hagne and Adam Lindsay) see the wikipgaes on Context Garden. I hope these remarks will be useful. Best regards: OK On 12/1/05, John R. Culleton wrote: > A person on the internet needs help using FarsiTeX, a bidirectional > typesetting engine for Farsi and English. It only runs on LaTeX > 2.09. > > If the same task were approached in Context, what would he need > to do beyond the regular Context stuff? Are there documents he > should read? > > This is not a client, but just someone appealing for guidance. > > John Culleton > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >