From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apropos emacs-intl-fonts & https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHebrew Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:47:48 +0200 Message-ID: <831u2x9pqj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871u2yx799.fsf@gmail.com> <83bo219y1k.fsf@gnu.org> <878ux51fqj.fsf@gmail.com> <87li15nthn.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <837gcp9qpr.fsf@gnu.org> <87eh6xxliw.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383511698 22754 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2013 20:48:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 20:48:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 03 21:48:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd4ar-0000Vm-Ne for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:48:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46768 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd4ar-0003se-1q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53949) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd4ak-0003sT-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:48:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd4ae-0000m0-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:48:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:59906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd4ae-0000lw-Mw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:48:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVP00L00GER2300@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:47:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVP00KI9GFUTT30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:47:55 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87eh6xxliw.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164914 Archived-At: > From: Jambunathan K > Cc: Uwe Brauer , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 02:14:55 +0530 > > Btw, speaking of "Hello David" table, I though the solution would > involve a directional override whereby English words are forced to > behave as though they are Hebrew words. Again, a directional override causes English _characters_ to behave as if they were Arabic or Hebrew characters. That is not what you want in this case. The ELisp manual describes the methods to achieve what you want: affect the relative layout of words, without changing how each word is displayed by itself.