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@Article{Becker:EPODD-2-3-119,
  author =       "Zeev Becker and Daniel Berry",
  title =        "{{\tt triroff}}, an adaptation of the
                 device-independent {{\tt troff}} for formatting
                 tri-directional text",
  journal =      j-EPODD,
  volume =       "2",
  number =       "3",
  pages =        "119--142",
  month =        oct,
  year =         "1989",
  CODEN =        "EPODEU",
  ISSN =         "0894-3982",
  bibsource =    "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/epodd.bib",
  abstract =     "This paper describes a system for formatting documents
                 consisting of text written in languages printed in
                 three different directions, left-to-right,
                 right-to-left, and top-to-bottom. For example, this
                 paper is such a document because it contains text
                 written in English, Hebrew, Japanese, and Chinese. The
                 system assumes that the input is in the order in which
                 the text is read aloud, and it produces output in which
                 each language is printed in its own correct direction,
                 but for which a human cognizant of the reading
                 conventions will reproduce the input order. The system
                 consists of three major pieces of software: Ossana and
                 Kernighan's {\tt ditroff} for formatting text
                 consisting of only left-to-right or unidirectional
                 text, Buchman and Berry's {\tt ffortid} for rearranging
                 right-to-left language text occurring in {\tt ditroff}
                 output to be printed from right to left, and a new
                 program {\tt bditroff} for rearranging top-to-bottom
                 text occurring in {\tt ditroff} output to be printed
                 from top to bottom. Below are translations of this
                 English language abstract, except for this paragraph,
                 into Hebrew, Japanese, and Chinese. The latter two are
                 printed twice, once in a modern left-to-right style,
                 and once in a more traditional top-to-bottom style. The
                 software described in this paper was used to format and
                 print this paper.",
  keywords =     "Document preparation, Multi-lingual,
                 Multi-directional, Troff, Typesetting",
}

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