> I'm not sure if this helps, but a colleague of mine had this to say when I > spoke to him about the issue: > > "Knuth actually wrote a version of TeX called TeX-XeT in order to > support bidirectional printing. Back in 1987 he and Pierre MacKay wrote an > article about the problem, "Mixing right-to-left texts with left-to-right > texts"; it appears in Knuth's collection _Digital typography_. Their > typeset examples are a sight to behold, because of course Knuth wanted to > make the bidirectionality work correctly with line breaks, hyphenation, and > so on, and also wanted to accommodate both the interests of people who use > right-to-left text occasionally in a left-to-right typesetting environment > and those of people who use left-to-right text occasionally in a > right-to-left environment. And arbitrarily many levels of nesting, > right-to-left inside left-to-right inside right-to-left inside > left-to-right, etc." >
Thanks, David. Althoug TeX-XeT does not seem to be supported anymore, searching for it got me some pages that will help me. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
