Re: bidi and shaping

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:07:10PM +0200, Klaus Lagally wrote:
> reminder: ArabTeX does bidi and ligature shaping for the extended Arabic
> sector of Unicode. I tried to post more info to the list but did not yet
> succeed; this is another test :-)
> 

Well it works now ;) What kind of bidi algorithm does ArabTeX use for Arabic?
I am no TeX expert (but an average user), so I would love it if you can (even
if briefly) explain to what it takes to make ArabTeX. Are there going to be
any font quality improvements?


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Mohammed Elzubeir