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From: E Sabof <esabof@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 14575@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14575: 24.3.50.1; Overlays with a window property affect other windows
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 21:54:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEp6DyYuH-0ng-4JCPxBrif91VY0d_5VvJ7pjeL6GpbGJ0n1Rg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fvwss675.fsf@gnu.org>

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You can set bidi-paragraph-direction to 'right-to-left, but I suspect

> that's not what you want.

 Editing and moving inside such text will
> behave in ways people don't expect to see in strict left-to-right
> text.
>
> In general, the bidi display is not about alignment, it's about
> display of bidirectional text.  That is what it was designed for, so
> any other uses will not necessarily produce desired results.  That it
> also flushes right-to-left paragraphs to the right margin is because
> people who use right-to-left scripts expect that.
>

Indeed, the "directionally neutral" characters are displayed according to
the paragraph's main alignment. Anyway, once the centering works, adding
right alignment shouldn't be hard.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-08 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-08 13:58 bug#14575: 24.3.50.1; Overlays with a window property affect other windows E Sabof
2013-06-08 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-08 18:47   ` E Sabof
2013-06-08 19:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-08 19:45       ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-08 20:00       ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-06-08 20:14       ` E Sabof
2013-06-08 20:16         ` E Sabof
2013-06-08 20:22           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-08 20:54             ` E Sabof [this message]
2013-06-08 22:03       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-08 23:39         ` Leo Liu
2013-06-09 10:31   ` E Sabof
2013-06-09 16:39     ` Eli Zaretskii

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