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: Re: improving bidi documents display Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:19:46 +0200 Message-ID: <838vx1npjh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837hcpryxr.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrklpzii.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <4D6A28AE.8010607@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298841593 18623 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2011 21:19:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eli.osherovich@gmail.com, md5i@md5i.com, oshima@sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp, emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?windows-1252?Q?=22Martin_J=2E_D=FCrst=22?= Original-X-From: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 27 22:19:48 2011 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 1Pto1s-0000Q3-1g for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:19:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58028 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pto1r-0000xi-Ez for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:19:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41495 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pto1n-0000vY-Px for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:19:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pto1m-0007WW-Fl for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:19:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:51100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pto1m-0007WO-6Y; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:19:42 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LHA00D00O153L00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:19:40 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.183.216]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LHA00CSJOKQXW60@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:19:40 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4D6A28AE.8010607@it.aoyama.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:845 gmane.emacs.devel:136583 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:34:22 +0900 > From: "Martin J. D=FCrst" > > CC: Eli Zaretskii , Eli Osherovich , > emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, oshima@sw.it.aoyam= a.ac.jp >=20 > one based on overlays, which is what was originally suggested for t= his=20 > purpose by Ken'ichi Handa, but is currently not working because the= =20 > characters in overlays don't participate in the bidi algorithm (Eli= =20 > thinks that would make things too slow). If by "characters in overlays" you mean display strings, then they ar= e not yet reordered because I didn't have enough time to make that happen yet, not because I think they would be slow. If you mean something else, you should know that overlays that specify other properties _are_ supported.