[tex-live] Bidi is gone!?

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 15:06:48 CEST 2013


2013/4/2 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>

> On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:48:39AM -0500, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > This morning the bidi package, as well as a bunch of other packages,
> > were deleted from TeX Live and are no longer available via CTAN. While
> > I don't use it I know there are others that do use it and wonder why
> > it was removed.
>
> The SVN log says "rm bidi, author request" (the same for a bunch of
> other packages of same author as well).
>
> I think some one should dig up the last bidi release from François
> Charette up put it on CTAN, since several packages depend on bidi.
>
> Especially polyglossia depends on bidi when dealing with Arabic, Farsi,
Urdu and possibly other languages...


> Regards,
> Khaled
>



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