From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "... the window start at a meaningless point within a line."
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:46:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpumr16m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bnby67yn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:26:08 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:19:36 +0000
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>>
>> > > There must be some bidi compatible order operators which express
>> > > "earlier than" etc. I will be needing these.
>>
>> > Define "earlier than". Is that on screen, i.e. in the visual order,
>> > or in the buffer, i.e. in the logical order, a.k.a. "the order of
>> > buffer positions"? These two orders are different for bidirectional
>> > text.
>>
>> I've no experience with bidi text, or even RTL text. Could you cite me
>> an appropriate bidi or RTL file I could play around with, even though I
>> couldn't read it. Would I need any special set up with (for example)
>> fonts, or input methods? In fact, before asking you to answer these I
>> should read the fine manual first.
>
> Just turn on the 'hebrew' input method and start typing.
דוד doesn't look all that different from L2R text.
--
David Kastrup
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-30 20:45 "... the window start at a meaningless point within a line." Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-01 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 9:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-01 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 11:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-01 12:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 16:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-15 18:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-15 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 9:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-16 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 15:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-16 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 20:46 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-10-17 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-17 7:56 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-16 21:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-16 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 18:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-16 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 20:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-17 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-17 11:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-17 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-17 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-17 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-18 15:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-18 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 10:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-27 13:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-27 17:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-27 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 8:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-28 13:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-31 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-31 21:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 14:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 15:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-01 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-01 18:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-18 14:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-18 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 10:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-19 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 11:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-19 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 12:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-19 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 13:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-19 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-19 19:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-27 13:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-17 15:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
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