> > I actually before emailing the LaTeX list, researched a lot and talked > > to > > different people and we all believe that we should have a separate > > format of > > LaTeX at least in 2e version. > > it will be interesting to understand the rationale behind this. I'm not > saying > you're wrong, it is just that I don't see a spinoff giving you any > additional benefits these days. Reasons in the past have been things like > preloaded fonts and those shouldn't apply today I would think. There could be a reason, yet: \documentclass. From other posts, I think what Vafa wants is to write the whole document using the Arabic script, including macro names. That's sensible, because mixing LtoR markup with RtoL text can be a mess and this can be only accomplished (to some extent) with a format. Javier