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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: typing right-to-left
Message-ID: <782@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 89 17:26:40 GMT
References: <12764@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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     Your point about line breaking is absolutely correct.  That issue and
several others are discussed in an excellent article in the July 1984 issue
of Scientific American.  It's called "MultiLingual Word Processing" by
Joseph D. Becker.  Becker was manager of international advanced development
at the Xerox Office Systems Division in Palo Alto.  The software he
describes runs on the Xerox Star, but the principles apply to the Amiga as
well.  

     The article, which begins on page 96, is of interest for two reasons.
The theoretical discussion of the problems of multilingual word processing
is excellent.  And for those seriously seeking multilingual word processing
capabilities it might be worth checking with Xerox to see if they have
marketed anything.

--Fabbian Dufoe
  350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South
  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
  813-823-2350

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