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Re: Reminder - send me Hebrew info.



On Sun, 11 Dec 1994, Harvey J. Stein wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the info.
>

You are welcome.
 
> I have a couple questions.I'm familiar with tex--xet & how it works,
> but not with pico.How exactly does it handle mixed language
> (Hebrew/English) editing & bidirectionality?I presume that the
> reason it can't use tex--xet is that the Hebrew is inserted (into the
> buffer & into the file) from right to left.Is this the case?

Exactly. (well, depending on the mode, if you're in Hebrew mode, latin 
gets inserted. The net result is a file which looks ok when viewed, which 
really means the Hebrew is back-to-front).

> Someone mentioned writing something simple to reverse just the Hebrew
> (in an effort to convert pico files to tex--xet format).I don't see
> how this could work without actually parsing the TeX commands, since
> in tex--xet you can be in Hebrew mode and/or in English mode due to
> various (nestable) commands.What do you think?

I think you are right. Somebody said that the solution would be to write
all the Hebrew, reverse it, and then add English and/or tex commands. 
This will really be a royal pain, and corrections would be almost
impossible. I guess another solution would be to embed some special symbol
for regions which should not be flipped, but that would open another can
of worms. 
 
> What exactly is kermit with Hebrew support?Does this just mean that
> the high end of the 8 bit ascii codes get mapped to Hebrew characters?

Yes.

> Does it also have a "Hebrew" mode which paints the screen from right
> to left instead of left to right?If so, it would only be suitable
> for English *or* Hebrew, but not for mixed language things.Is this
> the case?

If I understand your question correctly, the answer is no. Kermit is only 
a term.emulator, and it's up to the application to make the cursor move 
correctly. Hebrew will display correctly or flipped, depending on the 
organization of the file being displayed (e.g. a pico file will look ok, 
while an tex--xet input file will look wrong).

> Thanks, 
> Harvey
> 

My pleasure, Edna
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        Computation Center
        Hebrew University
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