Ethiopian Language Support for the Babel Package
By Berhanu Beyene, Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek, Olaf Kummer, and Jochen Metzinger.
This is a collection of fonts and TeX macros that
enable you to typeset the characters of the languages
of Ethiopia. You can download the package in version 0.7
here. Version 0.7 is now compatible with the Omega typesetting
system. We are using the GNU GPL as our license now.
- Documentation only (gziped postscript)
- Package for TeX and Metafont (gziped tar)
- Package for TeX and Metafont (zip file)
Possible updates will occur here first.
Bugs
If you know of bugs not reported here, please contact us at ethiop@informatik.uni-hamburg.deVersion 0.2
- Subscripts and superscripts are unreliable in math mode. This bug
occurs when a _ or a ^ is followed by a character with which it forms a
valid shorthand.
Patch: Always enclose the arguments of _ and ^ in curly brackets.
State: Fixed in version 0.3. - Ethiopian characters are not supported in math formulas. Only
ordinary TeX fonts are used.
Patch: Temporarily switch to text mode by means of a \hbox.
State: Limited Ethiopian math support has been added in version 0.3.
Version 0.3
No known bugs.Version 0.4
- Some of the active characters behave wrongly in math mode
after the Ethiopian language has been deselected.
State: Fixed in version 0.5.
Version 0.5
No known bugs.Version 0.6
No known bugs.Version 0.7
No known bugs.Other sites for the Ethiopian languages
- University of
Indiana. A large site with many links to the outside. Most notably,
you can find a description of the Unicode and SERA encodings for the
Ethiopian language.
- EthiO Systems. The home of the original EthTeX. In addition, EthiO Systems develops Ethiopian language support programs for MS Windows.
