wdr@faron.UUCP (William D. Ricker) (08/26/87)
In article <8480@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: > ... Don't >forget the right-to-left problems in Arabic and Hebrew, for that matter. >I don't know what the best answer is, and am not convinced that anyone else >does either. Hence "wait and see". My sympathy goes out to the people who >have compelling commercial reasons to do something about these issues now; >it can't be much fun. Joseph D. Becker of Xerox Information Systems Division, Sunnyvale, CA, wrote an article "Arabic Word Processing", p. 600 in /Communications of the ACM/ Vol. 30 No.7 (July 1987) which discusses the challenges of Middle-Eastern text processing, focussing primarily on Arabic but also covering Hebrew. Publisher's abstract: "Recently developed word processing software can correctly format the cursive, interacting letters of the Arabic script. Moreover, new layout procedures can automatically intermix right-to-left Arabic writing with left-to-right text in European or other languages." I recommend this article to anyone considering international text processing, which is probably most of the readership of this news.group. The article's Copyright Clearance Center code is: (C) 1987 ACM 0001-0782/87/0700-0600 $1.50 Non-commercial copies and abstracting are specifically permitted without fee as long as credit is given under the masthead copyright notice. Disclaimer: As a Member of the ACM, I stand to benefit by your subscribing by having more victims for the next dues increase to be apportioned over. If I don't resign in dismay before then. -- William Ricker wdr@faron.UUCP (UUCP) {decvax,allegra,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!faron!wdr (UUCP) #include disclaimer.h