From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:20:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83636ii1bb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tyu3iu6b.fsf@gnu.org> <4B659BA3.9050406@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264962075 11873 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2010 18:21:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 31 19:21:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-emacs-bidi@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 1NbeQ3-0006e9-S1 for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:21:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbeQ2-00074e-U3 for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NbePy-00074V-Rs for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57107 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbePx-00074E-KO for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:21:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbePw-0003oI-7b for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:21:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:2759) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbePv-0003o6-UF; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:21:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbePt-0008Nw-Qp; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KX400H00IO0QT00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:20:05 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.32.75]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KX400ET9IXFQN80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:20:05 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4B659BA3.9050406@harpegolden.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-bidi@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of Emacs support for multi-directional text." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bidi:483 gmane.emacs.devel:120753 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:02:59 +0000 > From: David De La Harpe Golden > CC: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-bidi@gnu.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > +----------+--------- +--------------------+ > |:abcdefgh$|:abcdefgh$|:abcdefghijk :| > |$HGFEDCBA:|$HGFEDCBA:|: KJIHGFEDCBA:| > |: :|: :|: :| > +----------+----------+--------------------+ > > +----------+--------- +--------------------+ > |$cdefghij$|:abcdefgh$|:abcdefghijk :| > |$FEDCBA..:|$HGFEDCBA:|: KJIHGFEDCBA:| > |: :|: :|: :| > +----------+----------+--------------------+ > > +----------+--------- +--------------------+ > |$efghijk :|:abcdefgh$|:abcdefghijk :| > |$DCBA....:|$HGFEDCBA:|: KJIHGFEDCBA:| > |: :|: :|: :| > +----------+----------+--------------------+ > > +----------+--------- +--------------------+ > |$ghijk :|:abcdefgh$|:abcdefghijk :| > |$BA......:|$HGFEDCBA:|: KJIHGFEDCBA:| > |: :|: :|: :| > +----------+----------+--------------------+ > > +----------+--------- +--------------------+ > |$ijk :|:abcdefgh$|:abcdefghijk :| > |$........:|$HGFEDCBA:|: KJIHGFEDCBA:| > |: :|: :|: :| > +----------+----------+--------------------+ This may be a good feature, but it's a new feature, and would require non-trivial changes in how the display engine lays out glyphs in the so-called ``glyph row'' (which is a generalization of a line). I think I want to avoid that for now, as my job is huge even without that.