Daniel M. Berry

Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada

Abstract:

This overview describes a number of projects in multi-lingual computing that have been and are being carried out at the Technion. These include the development of

1. ditroff/ffortid, a bi-directional version of the UNIX(tm) ditroff (device-indpendent troff) for typesetting documents containing, say text in the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew alphabets
2. triroff, a tri-directional version of the UNIX ditroff for typesetting documents containing, say text in the Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and Japanese alphabets
3. vi.iv, a bi-directional version of the UNIX vi full-screen editor for editing documents containing, say text in the Latin and Hebrew
4. MINIX.XINIM, a bi-directional version of MINIX, a miniature UNIX system, so that both the system and all applications running on top of it are fully bi-directional, with no change to any application program