> 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.

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