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From: kantor@techunix.BITNET (Eliezer Kantorowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hebrew and other RL languages for AMIGA
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Date: 18 Dec 89 13:15:21 GMT
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Reply-To: kantor%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Eliezer Kantorowitz)
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. Tech., Haifa Israel
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HEBREW FOR AMIGA
Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and other laguages are written
from Right to Left (RL languages). It seems that the AMIGA rom
kernel was designed to support this direction of writing.
On page 204 of the Rom Kernel Reference Manual under font prefernces
a variable FPB_REVPATH is specified for this purpose.
The description is insufficient for me, and the example on page 213
is not very informative. I hope that sombody can help me with the
following questions:

1. How can disk font be specified such that it will be rendered
RL. The font editor on the EXTRAS disk does not permit the selection
of the RL option in the 4th menu.

2. If I "setfont" to a font that was designed to be rendered RL,
and then use any existing word processor, will the text that I
type authomatically  be rendered RL?

I'll appreciate a C language example demonstrating the use of these
facilities by scanf() and in string gadgets (especially the  one
that provides the cursor position to be in the right side of the
gadget).
                        Eliezer Kantorowitz
                        Computer Science dept
                        Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
                        32000 Haifa,  Israel
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