3.20 Arabic for TeX; modern Greek texts

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Wed, 10 May 89 22:40:34 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 20. Wednesday, 10 May 1989.


(1) Date: Wed, 10 May 89 13:59 (22 lines)
From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-D at UCL) <UCGADKW@EUCLID.UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Arabic for TeX

(2) Date: Wed, 10 May 89 16:12:46 BST (7 lines)
From: JLD1@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject: Modern Greek texts

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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 13:59
From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-D at UCL) <UCGADKW@EUCLID.UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Arabic for TeX


Jacques Goldberg has almost finished Arabic and Persian fonts, designed
in METAFONT for use with TeX. He needs to do a little work on the
preprocessor, and that's about all, to make the fonts distributable. He
said it might take only a matter of hours.

But it sounded from his letter as if he has rather lost heart with this
project, and feels that no one is at all interested. So why should he
make an effort?

So, if you have any interest in seeing Arabic and Persian fonts
made available for use with TeX, please send and encouraging note
to Jacques, who is on Bitnet as GOLWS @ CERNVM .

Dominik

cc. TeXhax

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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 16:12:46 BST
From: JLD1@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject: Modern Greek texts

Dr Dia Philippides of Boston College, USA, is editing modern Greek texts
herself, and would know of most other such work. Her e-mail address as
far as I know is: PHILIPPD @ BCVMS John Dawson