well, knuth tex+cjk macro and xetex + macro support vertical typesetting. but will be very messy:( see http://gezhu.googlecode.com/files/demo-xelatex-071106.pdf for examples.
Yue Wang 2008/12/26 Yannis Haralambous <[email protected]>: > Le 26 déc. 08 à 02:03, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد a écrit : > > As I mentioned above, I think the last Omega primitives are newer than > TeX-e-Parsi's. But a related issue: Are those primitives based on the > unicode bidi algorithm? > > Implementing Unicode bidi will mean keeping track of the (directionality of > the) first character of every horizontal list so that calculations of > embedding levels can be done. Omega has never done that, and it couldn't do > it because OTPs use buffers which are most of the time smaller than the > whole paragraph. Is TeX-e-Parsi doing it? > Furthermore you all talk about LTR and RTL, but what about vertical > typesetting, in the Chinese or in the Mongolian way? Obviously TeX-e-Parsi > doesn't care about that. > > -- > +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Yannis Haralambous, Ph.D. [email protected] | > | Directeur d'Études http://omega.enstb.org/yannis | > | Tel. +33 (0)2.29.00.14.27 | > | Fax +33 (0)2.29.00.12.82 | > | Département Informatique | > | TELECOM Bretagne | > | Technopôle de Brest Iroise, CS 83818, 29238 Brest CEDEX 3, France | > | Coordonnées Google-Earth : 48°21'31.57"N 4°34'16.76"W | > +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > ...pour distinguer l'extérieur d'un aquarium, > mieux vaut n'être pas poisson > ...the ball I threw while playing in the park > has not yet reached the ground > Es gab eine Zeit, wo ich nur ungern über Schubert sprechen, > nur Nächtens den Bäumen und Sternen von ihm vorerzählen mögen. > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-luatex mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex > > _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
