TeX and Those Other Languages

Yannis Haralambous (1)

1 Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies

This paper relates the author's experiences while creating a wTeX package for typesetting in several languages of scholarly interest, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, Armenian, and Saxon. First. a combined use of METAFONT and a Postscript font creation program is described and commented: next, the TeXnical problems (and their solutions) with relation to each language are presented: finally. some new ideas for further development and application of TeX in non-Latin alphabet transmission through the electronic communication media are given.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Traitement du texte et du document

Yannis Haralambous. TeX and Those Other Languages. Tugboat, 1991, Proceedings of the 1991 Annual Meeting, 12 (4), pp.539-548. ⟨hal-02100299⟩