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: Emacs as word processor / Text Properties Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:22:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83eh5z6xmu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8338mmcsd9.fsf@gnu.org> <83txf1blf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87txf133yd.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <83r4a5bj5x.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwktdy6r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83iovhb0ez.fsf@gnu.org> <87k3fxdpmg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837gbwbcsx.fsf@gnu.org> <87d2lnevq7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ob57rlkb.fsf_-_@informatimago.com> <35e892b1-73b8-4ca2-9317-7eb83e7223e5@default> <464a688e-b7a5-4f6b-84b4-d7cd42107c8d@default> <87li074mxc.fsf@gmail.com> <83zjon7evk.fsf@gnu.org> <8761rb4jts.fsf@gmail.com> <83pppj77r4.fsf@gnu.org> <878uw7watz.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385738632 13715 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2013 15:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 29 16:23:56 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 1VmPv8-0005AO-Gp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:23:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmPv8-0004S8-2h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:23:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmPu6-0002bD-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:22:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmPu1-0007eF-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:38368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmPu0-0007eA-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:22:44 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MX100H006JTOQ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:22:43 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MX100HG66PULQ40@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:22:43 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878uw7watz.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:165879 Archived-At: > From: Jambunathan K > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:48:16 +0530 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Currently, in Org-mode, one cannot have multi-paragraph tables. > >> Assuming that in near future, it does support such tables, how would one > >> go about fixing the directionality. > > > > You already asked this in the past, and I already provided several > > alternatives. One is to use TAB characters, another is to use the > > '(space . PROPS)' display spec, yet another is to use RLM/RLM > > controls. Between these, I don't believe there's a problem we won't > > be able to solve. > > For the sake of record, Uwe ended up with "physically" reversing a table > row. Note the absence of Bidi markers in that text. > > See > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-11/msg00281.html That thread talks about exporting to ODT, so I don't really understand the issues involved. > ps: My "gut feeling" is that Uwe is also new to Bidi markups. He's certainly not new to them. But for some reason he didn't respond to my suggestions and didn't heed to them.