From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ehud Karni" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bidi Subject: Re: [emacs-bidi] Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:08:28 +0200 Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Message-ID: <201002041408.o14E8Sg5026439@beta.mvs.co.il> References: <83tyu3iu6b.fsf@gnu.org> <201002011400.o11E0jMQ007420@beta.mvs.co.il> <83vdeghfqg.fsf@gnu.org> <201002012205.o11M5Sci011809@beta.mvs.co.il> <83k4uvh09o.fsf@gnu.org> <201002031322.o13DMJ9L023085@beta.mvs.co.il> <83d40mgn42.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265292530 23835 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2010 14:08:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:08:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 04 15:08:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Nd2Nw-0002jz-Te for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:08:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43090 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd2Nw-0002cg-7E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:08:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd2Nn-0002bb-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:08:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44086 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd2Nm-0002bN-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:08:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd2Nl-0005Lk-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:08:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.16.147.12] (port=44534 helo=unix.mvs.co.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd2Nk-0005LI-Ad; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:08:32 -0500 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (beta [10.253.0.3]) by unix.mvs.co.il (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id o14E8TMe024461; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:08:29 +0200 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o14E8Td2026442; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:08:29 +0200 Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id o14E8Sg5026439; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:08:28 +0200 In-reply-to: <83d40mgn42.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:01:17 +0200) X-Mailer: Emacs 21.3.1 rmail (send-msg 1.109) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120900 gmane.emacs.bidi:513 Archived-At: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:01:17 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > In a wide screen with `right-margin-goal-column` set to 30: > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > > | NI SELIF EHT TUP | > > |/dir1/sdr2/sdr3 | > > | EHT EKAT LLIW I DNA | > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > I hope this is clearer. > > Yes, it's clear. But why is the last variant better than the others? > Is there really significance to the relative horizontal positions of > characters in different lines that makes it important to preserve that > relation? Think of 160 characters wide screen with short lines. It is difficult to follow the order of the lines when some appear at left side and some are on the right side. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7976-561 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D Better Safe Than Sorry