From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:01:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83d40mgn42.fsf@gnu.org> 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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265223759 4574 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2010 19:02:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 19:02:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il Original-X-From: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 20:02:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-emacs-bidi@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 1NckUp-0001Mb-7u for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:02:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NckUo-0003fz-KO for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:02:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NckTR-0002wz-JJ for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:01:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45503 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NckTQ-0002vG-4E for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NckTO-0003Vv-P8 for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:01:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:64607) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NckTO-0003Vr-Bp; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KXA003004NWSA00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:01:09 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.67.249]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KXA000PP4TVTM80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:01:08 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <201002031322.o13DMJ9L023085@beta.mvs.co.il> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-bidi@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of Emacs support for multi-directional text." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bidi:508 gmane.emacs.devel:120870 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:22:19 +0200 > From: "Ehud Karni" > Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > In a wide screen the above will be shown as: > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > | NI SELIF EHT TUP| > |/dir1/sdr2/sdr3 | > | MEHT EKAT LLIW I DNA| > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > > In a less wide screen it will be shown as: > +----------------------------+ > | NI SELIF EHT TUP| > |/dir1/sdr2/sdr3 | > | MEHT EKAT LLIW I DNA| > +----------------------------+ > > 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?