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Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:12:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <867cirwg77.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:41:32 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:pNzCsqCfrLvDK5SRkrED8Ys2ofEazCSqFvhGWewQpbf9JpyJpr6 69vSpQ2FzggbBaFOq4LR55NcQxcYdznX39YGLEfo8VU3CRzR6a++5uckSX/MGTaUwaCiK7x y+urAKViSotRJZpw81z/WLO2aGkOzZdeBMq/tTvx+39W8xiMFP7oxF2602yIGjctQqBZLnI MXfGMawy119G/tg+S/yQA== UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:SUN0xC/f3b4=;6JlXmWv16tgDHeAZB9i3Aopd8Kj ue9M8Ify0bTC6CqlM6Wq7MnDExESeBAv+iDhYK8Q6NWeBhJh6zv2LoZWxVS9zurWDfLJXE1zp oJgHzD3aEqNJSy2e0eSteckZtcgKwFpdVwSb2ZH+n4C1CnaY/rPCEkRsJdQRTw6g61A/zWxxY NHvTO3ENaZ0p/h7sEX2Dkc0pNUd6JxOuTSbS6GN/E5ggAAl+4/I8XVdm3uKitbxtNrKMZt8kd jiSGRPJhROeiz5SaCSaRobdVArc03a7neARYGVE22jsQnv649i9F8Inp25FDRLOjKUXk7QwDa ATFLKp2C48AU7PKZrjgtXwBJ6KaOS7QA5+SEbye63Ir3pPJsMITcDwy9jC8NbyT3jP53p2N9K g4gmIYOwEcm5EZiQCcsPDK801WYvCUk+uYHqm2K97dTo12kY7KYKgGWFGwXdWYFS/+CdtgqnH Bm6Rk8Vbu4MBZVyh62BIyshJ7BT0Gt2su2nx8ZKN1Q2fJbQHciKWjNtfOb76r5WdiRfktoEwW lo5dtW8zh9rc7bqvaIOYB4NyN7gEI3OdXjq2gFllOM8RLCsut9LzWkV7PQUaxG9LLJMfjrfu3 DXQwhzUXhvx4HS8/C7gT7LMmxBkmrPlbFW2lInQ+rGX+NmwjVxmxgRG9BRdSsX7P7lFCGWNRU 7V07oij2LrwvmyxClHxndI/g2a7z0gHd7preSy4xUyK5W0VOUYwlT2HQ7Z6v2HTjbdiNNggcn WJGWcxNdItbRCU8X8/8zhvx7y2c8ya3Nksa3BMl9uTkKU2+2qWaMrWdujQ+g9kMKAJeytpky X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:280667 Archived-At: On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:41:32 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Stephen Berman >> Cc: 69384@debbugs.gnu.org >> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 22:18:10 +0100 >>=20 >> > Sorry, this is still too vague. What do you mean by "RTL text aligned >> > with LTR text"? "aligned" in what way and sense? >> > >> > How about an example of text showing what you want to do? To avoid >> > strange effects of bidi reordering, please use lower-case letters to >> > represent LTR text and upper-case letters to represent RTL text. >>=20 >> The screenshot in my first post in this bug shows the alignment I want: >> the last (i.e. leftmost) character of the Arabic string occupies the >> same horizontal position (in this case, the leftmost column) as the >> first (i.e. leftmost) character of the English string. > > Then why not use something like this: > > (let* ((a "=D8=A7=D9=84=D8=B3=D9=91=D9=84=D8=A7=D9=85 =D8=B9=D9=84=D9= =8A=D9=83=D9=85") > (b "Hello") > (buf (get-buffer-create "Test1"))) > (with-current-buffer buf > (erase-buffer) > (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right) > (insert " " a > "\n\n" > " " b) > (switch-to-buffer buf))) > > IOW, align with spaces and TABs. =F0=9F=A4=A6 As so often, the obvious solution is only obvious after it's s= hown to you.... Thanks. Steve Berman