neatroff for Russian. (Was: Questions concerning hyphenation patterns for non-Latin languages, e.g. Russian)

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Oliver,

Are you aware there are other troff implementations than GNU's groff?
Neatroff is one.  Ali Gholami Rudi wrote it because he wanted better
Unicode support for foreign languages, including right-to-left text.
He seems very much of your mould in needs.

A good summary of its features is http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatroff.pdf
I see UTF-8 hyphenation files mentioned.
There's also whole-paragraph formatting and lots of other delights.
Rudi's http://litcave.rudi.ir has a Typesetting section past the initial
list of recent changes to his software.

Feel free to continue discussing neatroff here along with general troff
questions.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.