Re: Emacs as word processor / Text Properties

[Jambunathan K]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> No, I'm saying more than that: inserting those control characters _is_
> the Emacs way of tagging the paragraph as having a certain base
> direction.  Since Emacs is mostly about plain-text files, there's no
> other way to achieve that effect, while being sure that any other
> random UBA-compliant application will obey that.

As a side note, what this means is that "importers" (HTML -> Text
converters) like eww + shr MUST insert "extra" directional markers while
dealing with directional tags.