From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bidi Subject: Re: [emacs-bidi] Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:48:42 +0200 Message-ID: <831vh0hjdx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tyu3iu6b.fsf@gnu.org> <201002011400.o11E0jMQ007420@beta.mvs.co.il> <83vdeghfqg.fsf@gnu.org> <201002012205.o11M5Sci011809@beta.mvs.co.il> <83k4uvh09o.fsf@gnu.org> <201002031310.o13DAqXd019253@beta.mvs.co.il> <83eil2gn7i.fsf@gnu.org> <201002041402.o14E2wQ0024776@beta.mvs.co.il> <83636chk8t.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265312990 10243 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2010 19:49:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:49:50 +0000 (UTC) To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il, emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 04 20:49:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd7hz-0007SP-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:49:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd7hz-0007ea-8w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:49:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd7hn-0007bR-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50709 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd7hn-0007b7-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd7hn-0006DI-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:59040) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd7hk-0006Cr-VX; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KXC00G001FLOB00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:48:45 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.67.249]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KXC00C581P7I990@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:48:43 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <83636chk8t.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120918 gmane.emacs.bidi:522 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:30:10 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Look, as you know, the bidirectional display reorders on the buffer > text level, not on the glyph level. This means that in this example: > > name2 1234 catag2 NOITPIRCSED-GNOL-YREV name3 > > when the display engine, marching from left to right, reaches the > beginning of the R2L text (the character N), and calls the bidi ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sorry, I meant the character V, of course, because the logical order of this text is name2 1234 catag2 VERY-LONG-DESCRIPTION name3