Org mode and right-to-left paragraphs

Org mode and right-to-left paragraphs

[Manuel GJT]

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Hello everyone,

I want to work in an org buffer with both left-to-right and right-to-left
text (arabic). Although the character directionality and composition works
fine, when writing paragraphs with visual-line-mode on the lines get
inverted, i.e., the line

ZYX CBA

appears as

ZYX
CBA

instead of

CBA
ZYX

The section "22.20 Bidirectional Editing" of the Emacs manual suggests
forcing the directionality of the paragraph with RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK, but
this does not seem to work: even with such a character beginning the line,
(current-bidi-paragraph-direction) returns "left-to-right".

The RTL MARK seems to work just fine in tables.

When written in a clean text-mode buffer the same text appears with proper
directionality. However switching from org-mode to text-mode does not
correct directionality in said paragraphs. The issue persists even when
visiting the file with emacs -Q.

org-version 8.0.3, same issue with v. 7.9.4

Any fixes or workarounds? Your help is much appreciated, most of my brain
is linked to org-mode.

-- 
Manuel GJT

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Re: Org mode and right-to-left paragraphs

[Bastien]

Hi Manuel,

Manuel GJT <valhifi@gmail.com> writes:

> org-version 8.0.3, same issue with v. 7.9.4
>
> Any fixes or workarounds? Your help is much appreciated, most of my
> brain is linked to org-mode.

I'm afraid there is no real fix:

  (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)

is in the very definition of Org-mode.  But experience
shows that I'm often too pessimistic on this list :)

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Org mode and right-to-left paragraphs

[Manuel GJT]

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Hi Bastien,

Thank you for answering. Dov helped me figure out the issue that you point
out. The workaround was simple.

There is something very appealing (sexy?) about exporting documents with
multilingual texts and literate programming code blocks. That keeps me on
the optimistic side.

Regards,

Manuel GJT
On Jun 27, 2013 10:11 AM, "Bastien" <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

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