engelson-sean@cs.yale.edu (Wisp Lizard) (07/18/90)
Does anyone have any information about a version of TeX called XeT, that can typeset from right to left (in addition to left to right?)? Where can I get it? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean Philip Engelson, Poet Errant Make your learning a fixture; Yale Department of Computer Science Say little and do much; Box 2158 Yale Station And receive everyone with New Haven, CT 06520 a friendly attitude. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (07/18/90)
In article <25589@cs.yale.edu>, engelson-sean@cs.yale.edu (Wisp Lizard) writes... >Does anyone have any information about a version of TeX called XeT, that >can typeset from right to left (in addition to left to right?)? Where >can I get it? +WHAT IS TeX-XeT? TeX-XeT is a version of TeX modified to handle mixed Left-to-right and right-to-left texts. It was announced and described in TUGboat Volume 8 Number 1. Sometime in the future, TeX-XeT change files for TeX 3.0 will be made available from LISTSERV@TAUNIVM. No TeX-XeT implementation on the IBM PC is known at this time. TeX-XeT writes a special format of DVI files with a DVI version number of 3. In order for these DVI files to be processed by normal DVI drivers, they must first be pre-processed using the ivd2dvi program written by Larry Denenberg. The most recent version of this program may be FTP'd from ymir.claremont.edu in the directory [anonymous.tex.babel.hebrew.ivd2dvi] or obtained via BITNET by sending the command GET IVD2DVI PACKAGE to LISTSERV@TAUNIVM. +WHAT ALTERNATIVES TO TeX-XeT ARE AVAILABLE? While the preferred method for handling right-to-left typesetting is TeX-XeT, this program is not universally available at this time. To get around this problem, several work-arounds have been developed: SEMITIC.STY by Grahame McKinstry is a macro-based solution for LaTeX which will automatically reverse all text inside the semitic environment. This technique has many shortcomings which are described in that file. It can be obtained from ymir.claremont.edu in the directory [anonymous.tex.babel.hebrew.macros] or via BITNET by sending the command GET SEMITIC STY to LISTSERV@TAUNIVM. PRTEX/SUPRTEX by Jacques Goldberg and Stephen Wood is a pre-processor written in portable C which reverses the text prior to TeXing. PRTEX is a "vanilla" version of the preprocessor and SUPRTEX is an extended one allowing one to use any coding for the Hebrew letters that one likes (handy for those of us without Hebrew keyboards). This program may be obtained from ymir.claremont.edu in the directory [anonymous.tex.babel.hebrew.prtex] with the associated macros residing in [anonymous.tex.babel.hebrew.macros] Via Bitnet, the files can be obtained by sending the command GET IVRITEX PACKAGE to LISTSERV@TAUNIVM. --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont Consulting and dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu production work. Free Estimates. dhosek@ymir.bitnet uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147