(Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> wrote: > On 25-Jun-2014 10:16:13 Russell Hyer wrote: > > I am writing to ask whether anyone on this list knows about any > > built in right-to-left support for Groff (without having to resort > > to hacks like using sed to reverse streams of characters)[1]. > > One of the reasons I mention this, is that there was a document or > > a mini solution (perhaps?) provided on the groff mailing list a > > number of years back - but trying to search the web for modern and > > relevant information seems to be fraught with the wrong answers > > (or just bad info). > > It could be interesting to see if others have knowledge of more > recent developments! Unfortunately troff/groff itself is LTR oriented > in its internal workings, and can drop the dish on the floor when > trying to serve up RTL text (especially when RTL segments are embedded > in a mainly LTR text -- e.g. you are writing in English but quoting > Arabic or Hebrew -- line breaks can be a major problem here). > > Many (about 25) years ago there was a version called ffortid > (i.e. RTL "ditroff"). I did try this for a while, but did not manage > to get used to it!
There is also the dir branch of neatroff, my troff implementation. See http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatroff.pdf for an overview of neatroff and http://litcave.rudi.ir/dir.html for text direction requests. Ali
