FarsiTeX is a free Persian/English bidirectional typesetting system based on the
TeX
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system. The FarsiTeX project was initiated by
Mohammad Ghodsi at
Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology (SUT); (, romanized : Dāneshgāh-e sana'ti-e sharif) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered to be the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology ...
in 1993.
The latest (experimental) version of FarsiTeX in 2006 is released with a
Windows installer
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, bundled with an editor and makeindex utility. The source tarball can be used on
Linux
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and other systems as well.
It is released under the
GNU GPL
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.
See also
*
ArabTeX for Arabic writing
*
MonTeX for vertical,
traditional Mongolian alphabet
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,
old Uyghur
Old Uyghur () was a Turkic language spoken in Qocho from the 9th–14th centuries as well as in Gansu.
History
Old Uyghur evolved from Old Turkic, a Siberian Turkic language, after the Uyghur Khaganate broke up and remnants of it migrated ...
and
Tungus
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The Tungusic language family is divided into two main branches, Northern ...
writings.
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XeTeX
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or ; see also Pronouncing and writing "TeX") is a TeX typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies such as OpenType, Graphite and Apple Advanced Typography (AAT). It was originally written by Jonathan Kew ...
*
List of TeX extensions
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References
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External links
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Free TeX software
Persian orthography
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