From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-bidi@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Handling invisible text in bidirectional display
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:42:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdezykuq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 831vho8nfl.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>>
>> There also is a difference between invisibility and display properties
>> here: if there is a display property on a letter "x", it is hard to see
>> why several consecutive images should be reordered to be L->R. Of
>> course, one should argue that in the presence of L->R, people should
>> take care to use the right "shadowed" character to match the intended
>> left/rightness of the image. But I think that is not really sane. If
>> we want display property material to have an explicit direction, it
>> should be set with properties, not by some magic derivation from the
>> underlying invisible text.
>
> I don't understand the use-case, and without it this reads like a
> charade (what "x"? which "shadowed" characters? what images?). Please
> show a complete example, then I'll be able to reason about it.
Just find some JPG file into an Emacs buffer and look at the underlying
presentation.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-18 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-16 16:54 Handling invisible text in bidirectional display Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-16 18:43 ` martin rudalics
2010-01-16 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-17 8:59 ` martin rudalics
2010-01-17 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-18 8:11 ` martin rudalics
2010-01-18 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-18 10:39 ` martin rudalics
2010-01-18 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-16 19:15 ` David Kastrup
2010-01-16 20:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-17 16:05 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-17 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-17 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2010-01-17 20:39 ` Ehud Karni
2010-01-17 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-18 6:42 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-01-18 8:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-16 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-16 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-17 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-17 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-18 11:56 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-22 13:41 ` Bidi TODO (was: Handling invisible text in bidirectional display) Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-01 14:48 ` [emacs-bidi] " Ehud Karni
2010-01-18 1:27 ` Handling invisible text in bidirectional display Kenichi Handa
2010-01-18 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-18 7:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-01-18 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-18 11:09 ` Kenichi Handa
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