Hi John, I know that some people in Iran set up a nice bidirectional TeX engine, called "FarsiTeX" or "ParsiTeX", but as you say in your message it works only with LaTeX and on Windows (and on Unix systems for a paid version). Unfortunately it seems that it is not maintained anymore, at least as far as I know. However, if your acquaintance uses MacOS X, there is a very nice solution for bidirectional TeX: using XeTeX, either under PlainTeX, or together with ConTeXt (or LaTeX) it is quite easy to typeset multilingual texts in all directions (Left to Right, Right to Left, and even very recently for Up to Bottom--Right to Left as it is done in some Chinese books). I use to some extent XeTeX together with ConTeXt (getting a format called sometimes "XeConTeXt") to write Farsi, and the result is quite nice. For more informations on XeTeX, developped and maintained by Jonathan Kew, see http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex and for using XeTeX with ConTeXt (made possible thanks to hans Hagne and Adam Lindsay) see the wikipgaes on Context Garden. I hope these remarks will be useful. Best regards: OK On 12/1/05, John R. Culleton wrote:

A person on the internet needs help using FarsiTeX, a bidirectional typesetting engine for Farsi and English. It only runs on LaTeX 2.09.

If the same task were approached in Context, what would he need to do beyond the regular Context stuff? Are there documents he should read?

This is not a client, but just someone appealing for guidance.

John Culleton

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