Re: right-to-left typesetting

[Efraim Yawitz <fyawitz@actcom.co.il>]

Thanks very much.

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> There are two files that run on top of arabtex,
> 
> \setupbodyfont[heb] will give you \starthebrew .. \stophebrew
> 
> another way is Omega, but this is not yet stable, is under reconstruction, 
> etc.
> 
> There is a some crude low level awareness of direction, but o have to pop 
> that into the hebrew handler. [one has for instance to reverse a couple of 
> things]
I'm not sure what you mean about awareness of direction.  As I mentioned, etex already has primitives for this.
> 
> With regards to the otr, columns already can go right -> left, and more 
> will follow; the more precise the demands are written down, the better i 
> can act upon them,
I'll try to think about it.
> 
> i have to pick up the chinese / farsi / hebrew thread anyway -)
> 
> Hans
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