[XeTeX] Syriac: Text Direction
François Charette
firmicus at ankabut.net
Mon Apr 30 09:01:47 CEST 2007
> This may also work in XeLaTeX, but \everypar is liable to be
> overwritten by various LaTeX environments, etc. You might want to
> look at François Charette's ArabXeTeX package (announced recently on
> this mailing list) to see what it does about controlling direction; I
> expect it's much more fully integrated with LaTeX features.
>
> JK
>
For typesetting Syriac with UTF-8 input I suggest you use the more
generic package bidi instead (also on CTAN) :
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bidi.html
Yours,
François
PS: Following an off-list exchange with Malte Rosenau, I have written
experimental TECkit mappings that support Syriac in ArabXeTeX. This may
become integrated in a future version. Contact me directly if you are
interested.
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