[XeTeX] ascii to unicode map for Hebrew

[Petr Tomasek]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 02:09:20PM +0800, Ross Moore wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> On 16/10/2011, at 1:40 PM, Nathan Camillo Sidoli wrote:
> 
> > I am editing a book of collected papers from a number of different authors, and I have a paper that is originally in LaTeX with some Hebrew, which is input in ascii.
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "input in ascii"?

I don't known what exactly used the author in question but
there existed several "encodings" of Hebrew which used "ascii"
codepoints for Hebrew characters bound to a particular font.
See e.g. the "bwhebb" fonts, the "responsa" fonts and other..

Additionaly, some of them had to be encoded "LTR", i.e. causing
problems if more that a single word was quoted and a line-break
occured in between the Hebrew words...

> Are these (La)TeX control-sequence names?
> If so, then there must be a package or style-file that
> interprets these sequences, mapping to font-characters
> in some legacy font.
> 
> Can you please provide an example of one of these papers?
> 
> Don't send it all, but include everything from the start,
> down to  \begin{document}  and some paragraphs within the body.
> Also include the very end, where the  \end{document}  occurs,
> and any special (non-content) coding that may be there.
> 
> > 
> > Is there a map for converting ascii to unicode for Hebrew (along the lines of asciitogreek.map).
> 
> Are you planning to use XeTeX (XeLaTeX) as the processor?
> If so, please reply to the XeTeX list (copied here) as there
> may be people there who can help --- especially with the RTL
> aspect of Hebrew typesetting.
> 
> If there is a standard package involved, then maybe the macros
> it defines should be supported by the  Xunicode  package, which
> provides back-compatibility for XeTeX with such legacy methods.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Nathan
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> 	Ross
> 
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