From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:29:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD0B667.9080509@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83my3zjkrs.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Does the function font-shape-gstring help with fitting this in?
>>
>
> I'm sorry to say that I don't understand what it does. If you can
> explain, or give me an educational example to play with, maybe I will
> be able to answer your question, my profound ignorance of GUI
> rendering notwithstanding.
>
On second thoughts, it probably doesn't help for two reasons:
font-shape-gstring uses the font backend to do glyph reordering, which
would give inconsistent results on different platforms; and I just
realised that to work on terminals, the font backend is the wrong place
to be doing bidi reordering.
> Which is why I tried
Apologies for skimming over parts of your message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-10 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 21:18 Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-09 21:55 ` joakim
2009-10-09 22:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-09 22:42 ` joakim
2009-10-10 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-10 7:28 ` joakim
2009-10-10 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-09 22:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-10 9:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-10 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-11 8:41 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-11 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-11 21:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-12 10:11 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-12 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-10 13:44 ` Sascha Wilde
2009-10-10 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-10 15:54 ` Sascha Wilde
2009-10-10 14:57 ` Ehud Karni
2009-10-10 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-10 15:13 ` Jason Rumney
2009-10-10 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-10 16:29 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-10-10 17:18 ` James Cloos
2009-10-10 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-18 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-19 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-19 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-20 3:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-25 17:31 ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-04-25 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 18:44 ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-04-25 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 21:31 ` Now: Paragraph Direction Detection and Harmonization -- Was: " Mohsen BANAN
2011-04-25 22:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 7:56 ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-04-26 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-27 21:58 ` Now: Paragraph Direction Detection and Harmonization Mohsen BANAN
2011-04-26 18:24 ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-04-26 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 1:22 ` Now: Paragraph Direction Detection and Harmonization -- Was: Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-28 0:52 ` Requesting instructions for enabling bidi by default Mohsen BANAN
2011-04-28 1:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
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