RE: Bidi Examples of math, going right to left

From: Jonathan Rosenne (rosenne@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Jun 28 2000 - 16:04:38 EDT


I had been told that in Egypt math is right to left, at least in school
books. I have no first hand knowledge.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roozbeh Pournader [mailto:roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 6:40 PM
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> Cc: Unicode List; ion@ams.org
> Subject: Re: Bidi Examples of math, going right to left
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> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Tex Texin wrote:
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> > I have been asked to gather some examples of mathematical
> > expressions used in bidirectional languages, where the
> > expressions go right to left rather than left to right.
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> Persian and Hebrew math are left to right. At least some Arabic math is
> right to left (I've seen that in an Iraqi math book, but I do not have any
> access to it now.) The best practice may be finding some Iraqi guy.
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> --roozbeh
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