URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60060>
Summary: support other printing directions (right to left,
top to bottom)
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Mon 15 Feb 2021 12:10:58 AM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: New feature
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
(This has been discussed before, and even taken into account in design
decisions (e.g., the last comment in bug #59795), but there seems to be no
official feature request yet.)
Groff should support printing in directions other than left to right, such as
for Hebrew (right to left) or traditional Japanese (top to bottom).
Two decades ago, Ted Harding posted some information
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2000-11/msg00074.html) about *roff
implementations developed by Dan Berry that could do both of these. This post
discusses techniques that might be suitable for groff as well. Ralph Corderoy
later posted a link
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-06/msg00096.html) to a
bibliography of Dan's work.
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