At 09:34 AM 8/5/2001 +0300, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Does anyone have any experience with right-to-left typesetting with
>ConTeXt? etex has primitives \beginR, \endR, \beginL, \endL which are for
>this purpose, but how can I use them in ConTeXt? Just as an experiment, I
>put some \everypar and \everyhbox statements into an input file and got
>some pretty nice results (reversed paragraphs and columns) along with a
>lot of error messages about 'missing \endR'. Of course, it's still pretty
>crude (page numbers reversed, for example), and I know this is not the way
>to do it? Is there a 'way to do it' already implemented, or could the
>ConTeXt gurus add something? It doesn't sound like a lot of extra code.
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]
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 have to pick up the chinese / farsi / hebrew thread anyway -)
Hans
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