[XeTeX] The FriBidiXeTeX program

[Hossein Noorikhah]

Hi,

Thanks for this useful application. I've tested it which worked just fine
for me. I'm going to test it further.

I hope that this approach —which I think is a must for a Unicode
application— will be incorporated in the core XeTeX, or a similar
functionality for bidi processing gets implemented.

One suggestion is to create a reverse translation, replacing \rl and \lr to
their Unicode equivalents like RLM/LRM, when necessary. When they are not,
just removing them. This helps going from a XePersian file with \rl and \lr
marks to a clean file. This also helps better testing of the application in
a back and forth translations as a kind of regression testing.

Another suggestion is finding the direction of the paragraphs, and if they
are LTR, using \begin{latin} and \end{latin} accordingly.

Hossein

2016-11-22 17:26 GMT+03:30 Vafa Khalighi <vk489 at uowmail.edu.au>:

> As some of you may have noticed, there is a new program (written in C
> programming language) which uses fribidi library and supports unicode
> bidirectional algorithm.
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> If you use the bidi package, then for inserting short RTL text between an
> LTR paragraph, you have to use \RLE (or \RL) and \LRE (or \LR) if you are
> typesetting short LTR text between an RTL paragraph. This sometimes can be
> annoying.
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> The FriBidiXeTeX[1] is a preprocessor which allows you to write a normal
> tex file without using \LRE or \RLE and convert your tex file to another
> file which contains the \LRE and \RLE macros automatically.
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> The FriBidiXeTeX program is not restricted to bidi package or LaTeX; you
> can even use it for your plain TeX document.
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> The development takes place on GitHub so if you have any issues/suggestion
> or improvement, please use GitHub for that purpose.
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> I asked TeXLive people to include the program in TeXLive 2017. It will be
> added to MiKTeX soon. I should also thank Akira for providing windows
> binaries.
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> [1] http://ctan.org/pkg/fribidixetex
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