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- From: kl811aa@sun1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE ()
- Subject: Bdirectional input of text?
- Message-ID: <kl811aa.724970810@sun1>
- Summary: How to produce hebrew and latin texts together
- Keywords: hebrew arabic bidirectional
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:46:50 GMT
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- Hi,
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- did anybody succeed to bring e.g. Hebrew and English text into one and
- the same document (or even on the same line) in OS/2 2.0 and WINOS?
- I mean, using a hebrew font, going from right to left and a latin font
- going into the other direction.
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- I am aware that there is bidirectional support in a OS/2 text session,
- but not in the Presentation Manager. Yet there are these beautiful hebrew
- Type 1 fonts out there, which are a pain to input text in if your cursor
- moves into the wrong direction (the same of course with arabic and other
- old semitic languages)
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- This seems to be an odd question (certainly a RAQ). But there must be a
- method, I guess, otherwise for what purpose would one create these fonts?
-
- Do you need special s/w for this? Is there a system feature to be installed?
- What sort of tricks do professional linguists to overcome these shortcomings?
-
- Grateful for any hint,
-
- Johannes Ehrat
- ehrat@lrz-extern.lrz-muenchen.dbp.de
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