FarsiTEX and the Iranian TEX CommunityMarch 21st, 2003
FiledMarch 21st, 2003FarsiTEX, a localized version of LATEX, is a bilingual Persian/English typesetting package, meeting the minimum requirements of Persian mathematical and tech- nical typography. This paper will describe FarsiTEX, together with its history, future and technicalities, its user community, and the reasons behind its success in Iran, amid its various usage and interoperability problems. It will also draw a general picture of the TEX community in Iran, and tries to describe why the community is still far from achieving its basic typographical needs.