The past few days I have been writing some stuff that includes
Arabic, Hebrew and Ethiopic text fragments. The question is
how to do something like that in a TeX-like environment.
Maybe people have good advice given this general question.
I tried the ethiop package with latex and found that it doesnt
work any more, even the docs that come with the package can no
longer be formatted with latex.
Wrote to the authors, but it seems the package is abandoned.
I tried lambda with arabic, and that worked beautifully.
Then added makor2 for hebrew, and also that works reasonably well.
(One file had to be renamed to make it work: Ezra.pfb must be ezra.tfb.)
Remained the question what to do with ethiopic.
Maybe I have to do things myself, and I also did do that,
and it works, more or less, but the constructions are ugly.
No doubt I do not know the right approach.
One omega question: how do I address a given font position?
In LaTeX I can write \char'0 and get position 0 of the font.
The same works in lambda, but as soon as I add
\usepackage{omega}
this no longer works:
! Text line contains an invalid character.
OCP stack 1.0 entry 0:^^@
and I have to invent strange detours to get at given font positions.
Andries
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