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@Article{Srouji:EPODD-5-4-163,
  author =       "Johny Srouji and Daniel Berry",
  title =        "{Arabic} formatting with {\tt ditroff/ffortid}",
  journal =      j-EPODD,
  volume =       "5",
  number =       "4",
  pages =        "163--208",
  month =        dec,
  year =         "1992",
  CODEN =        "EPODEU",
  ISSN =         "0894-3982",
  bibdate =      "Sat Jan 06 18:25:34 1996",
  bibsource =    "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/epodd.bib",
  abstract =     "This paper describes an Arabic formatting system that
                 is able for format multilingual scientific documents,
                 containing text in Arabic or Persian, as well as other
                 languages, plus pictures, graphs, formulae, tables,
                 bibliographical citations, and bibliographies. The
                 system is an extension of {\tt ditroff/ffortid} that is
                 already capable of handling Hebrew in the context of
                 multilingual scientific documents. {\tt
                 ditroff/ffortid} itself is a collection of pre- and
                 postprocessors for the UNIX {\tt ditroff} (Device
                 Independent Typesetter RunOFF) formatter. The new
                 system is built without changing {\tt ditroff} itself.
                 The extension consists of a new preprocessor, fonts,
                 and a modified existing postprocessor. The preprocessor
                 transliterates from a phonetic rendition of Arabic
                 using only the two cases of the Latin alphabet. The
                 preprocessor assigns a position, stand-alone,
                 connected-previous, connected-after, or connected-both,
                 to each letter. It recognizes ligatures and assigns
                 vertical positions from a standard Arabic keyboard
                 using the standard ASMO encoding. In any case, the
                 output has each positioned letter or ligature and each
                 diacritical mark encoded according to the font's
                 encoding scheme. The fonts are assumed to be designed
                 to connect letters that should be connected when they
                 are printed adjacent to each other. The postprocessor
                 is an enhancement of the {\tt ffortid} program that
                 arranges for right-to-left printing of identified
                 right-to-left fonts. The major enhancement is
                 stretching final letters of lines or words instead of
                 inserting extra inter-word spaces, in order to justify
                 the text. As a self-test, this paper was formatted
                 using the described system, and it contains many
                 examples of text written in Arabic, Hebrew, and
                 English.",
  keywords =     "Arabic, Bidirectional, Formatting, Multi-lingual,
                 Troff",
}

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