Re: right-to-left texinfo typesetting

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 14:17:13 +0200
> From: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
> 
> As far as TeX is concerned, I have heard about TeX-XeT which should
> be able to typeset right to left.

Last time I looked at TeX-XeT, it used Latin characters to encode
Hebrew letters, and didn't support bidirectional reordering in the
Unicode sense.

> As far as text editing is concerned, there must be _a_text_editor_ to
> edit such texts.  I don't know whether any of those editors can also
> run lisp programs ;-).

I'm not aware of any free software editor that supports the full
spectrum of bidirectional text editing as described by Unicode.  I
once started working on a bidi Emacs, but personal problems prevent me
from finishing it; unfortunately, no one else stepped forward to
finish it, either.