[XeTeX] Bidi is now maintained by Vafa Khalighi

[Petr Tomasek]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 07:14:32PM +0200, François Charette wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I have asked Vafa Khalighi (author of xepersian) whether he would be
> interested in taking over my package bidi. He has accepted and I am thus
> glad to announce that from now on he will be the active maintainer of
> bidi on CTAN. All bidi-related correspondence should henceforth be
> addressed to him.
> 
> I will for my part concentrate my activity on maintaining and improving
> polyglossia. Please also take note that I have removed polyglossia from
> the xetex subversion repository. The development code is now located on
> github¹, in the agreeable company of fontspec ;)
> 
> Best regards,
> François Charette
> 
> ¹ http://github.com/fc7/polyglossia

Hi!

some questions:
 a) is the "bidi package" capable of detecting parts of the text written
with particular script and applying appropriate font properties (like
the "script=" one)?
 b) if yes, can this be somehow used in plain XeTeX?

Thank You!

P.T.

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