From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: atamariya@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:53:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fsvfeul8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831r70fc0b.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 14:37:24 +0300)
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 14:37:24 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:18:23 +0530
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > Does it also start RTL text at the right edge of the paper? And how
> > does it reorder characters for printing?
> >
> > (Sorry for asking these questions, but I'm still unable to see
> > anything useful on the GitLab URL you show -- when I go there, I see
> > only the navigation tree on the left and an empty pane on the right.)
> >
> > The code uses window positioning information for characters from Emacs and then scales the content to fit
> > the print width.
>
> So this needs the buffer text be displayed in some window, before it
> could be printed?
The window positioning information can only be obtained for the part
of the buffer text actually visible in a window; for buffer positions
outside of the viewport posn-at-point will give you nil. How do you
work around this limitation to allow printing text of the entire
buffer?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-11 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-10 5:41 Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew) Anand Tamariya
2021-08-10 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-11 3:48 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-11 11:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-11 15:59 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-11 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-12 5:24 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-12 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-12 8:51 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-12 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-13 9:16 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-08-11 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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