From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: 69384@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69384: 30.0.50; :align-to and bidi-paragraph-direction interaction
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:47:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86o7c4wkwb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5no1pka.fsf@gmx.net> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 17:22:45 +0100
> From: Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> In a buffer that contains bidirectional text, setting
> bidi-paragraph-direction to 'left-to-right aligns the RTL text with the
> left margin like the LTR text; see the first sexp below and the top
> buffer in the attached screenshot.
Yes, and that's what you should expect. That's what
bidi-paragraph-direction set to left-to-right means: the base
paragraph direction of every paragraph in this buffer will be LTR. If
you think this is a bug or unexpected, please tell why.
> Another alternative to get this alignment is to leave
> bidi-paragraph-direction at its default value of nil and use a space
> display specification with a suitable value for the :align-to property,
> but this requires a calculation that seems to depend at least on the
> font used and the values of `window-width' and `string-width' for the
> string used (or the corresponding pixel-width values); see the second
> sexp below and the middle buffer in the attached screenshot.
Yes, because in a RTL paragraph, columns are counted from the right
edge of the window. So this again is the expected behavior, and if
you consider that unexpected, please explain why.
> It's also possible to avoid this calculation and use an :align-to value
> of 0 in combination with setting bidi-paragraph-direction to
> 'left-to-right;
What is the purpose of using ":align-to 0"? what do you think is the
semantics of that and your expectations?
> see the third sexp below and the bottom buffer in the
> attached screenshot. However, as the screenshot shows, this last
> alternative breaks Arabic text shaping, at least for the fonts I tried
I will look into the shaping problem, but in general 'display' specs
do affect bidirectional display; see the end of the node "Specified
Space" in the ELisp manual.
Still, I don't think I understand what are you reporting as a bug
here. Please clarify.
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2024-02-25 16:22 bug#69384: 30.0.50; :align-to and bidi-paragraph-direction interaction Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-25 17:17 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-25 18:26 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-25 21:18 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-26 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-26 14:12 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-26 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-26 21:46 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-27 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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