Re: Re: emacs + unicode + hebrew + bidi

[cyberkm@gmail.com]

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Thank you, but unforunatly, it is not a solution -
Hebrew is not simple right to left
its a BI-Directional. Then text is written from rtl the number ltr, what
about the punctuation signs, spaces and etc..
the bi-di code is very complex

On Nov 4, 2008 5:05am, "BT Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> wrote:
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> Pavel wrote:
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> Hi everybody, i would like to know if the combination i mentioned in the
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> I would like to write Hebrew latex documents in emacs, but unfortunately  
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> As a kludge you could type everything left to right and then apply this  
function to the whole buffer:
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> There is something perverse about it since it doesn't seem to need to be  
passed a string but, anyway, evaluating it in *Scratch* produces this:
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> ))))gnirts-reffub( tsil-ot-gnirts( esrevern( gnirts'# ylppa(
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> ..reffub nwo s'elif taht ni txet eht retne neht ;;
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> ,fC xC htiw elif taht tisiv ,elif a etaerc ot tnaw uoy fI ;;
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> ..noitaulave psiL rof dna ,evas ot tnaw t'nod uoy seton rof si reffub  
sihT ;;"
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> Ed
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> Of course you want to do this line by line, not to the whole buffer,  
since in Hebrew and Arabic you start at the back of the book but not at the  
bottom of the page. O well, back to the drawing board.
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> You could then demarcate the above text as a region and then run Mx  
reverse-region on it. It's still a kludge but it might work on multi-byte  
buffers.
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