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9 pages
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TeX has originally been designed with European languages in mind,
and thus, whenever a paragraph contains text portions running in
opposite directions, e.g. when combining English and Arabic or
Hebrew in the same document, the task of line-breaking becomes
rather complicated.
For a clean solution, Knuth and MacKay have proposed an modification
to TeX, TeX-XeT, which will produce an extended DVI file containing
additional directional information to be exploited by a modified DVI
driver; and by now there exist several implementations of this idea,
including TeX-XeT that produces a standard DVI file. The main
drawback is just that we have to go outside the TeX standard.
We present a portable technique to handle bidirectional
line-breaking by using TeX macros alone, albeit at some sacrifice in
quality. This technique has been implemented in the version 3.02 of
the author's multi-lingual ArabTeX package.
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Stuttgart, Germany, Universität Stuttgart
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Text
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| Fakultätsbericht
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ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/library/ncstrl.ustuttgart_fi/TR-1994-11/TR-1994-11.pdf
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Betriebssoftware (IFI)
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application/pdf
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Natural Language Processing (CR I.2.7)
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| Text Processing General (CR I.7.0)
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| Document Preparation (CR I.7.2)
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Technical Report No. 1994/11
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