[comp.text] Arabic in TeX?

kuehme@infbs.UUCP (Thomas Kuehme) (12/06/88)

Does anybody have informations about extensions of TeX / LaTeX for
arabic language? Where can I get adequate fonts and macro packages,
especially for writing from right to left side?

I'd be glad, if somebody can give me some hints.

Thomas Kuehme

Institut fuer Betriebssysteme und Rechnerverbund
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
D-3300 Braunschweig
W.-Germany

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mostardi@ux1.lbl.gov (David Mostardi) (12/10/88)

In article <1039@infbs.UUCP> kuehme@infbs.UUCP () writes:
>
>Does anybody have informations about extensions of TeX / LaTeX for
>arabic language? Where can I get adequate fonts and macro packages,
>especially for writing from right to left side?

See TUGboat, Vol. 9, No. 2, August 1988, page 134-5

Contact:

Pierre MacKay
Dept. of Computer Science, FR-35
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195

Phone: 206/545-2386   or  206/543-6259

Net: MacKay@june.cs.washington.edu

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