Re: [emacs-bidi] Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll

[Ehud Karni]

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:39:11 David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
>
> I did not previously look at single lines of mixed R2L and L2R text
> being wrapped into continuation lines.   As far as I can tell, an L2R
> line will be continued at the left even if wrapped at an R2L span
> within it.  An R2L line will be continued at the right even if wrapping
> at a L2R span within it.

That is the Hebrew readers are used to it (i.e. in HTML pages and
printed text - newspapers and articles).

Eli has explained the difficulties to do it with the current Emacs
display engine. Emacs has some properties (text overlays is a major
example) that make it even more difficult. Until a better bidi
display engine is in place, I'll write my own elisp code to do the
re-flow on long mixed lines, so the actual work will be acceptable.


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