Re: Re: improving bidi documents display

Hello Eli,

Sorry to be late with my answer.

On 2011/02/28 6:19, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:34:22 +0900
>> From: "Martin J. D=FCrst"
>>   <[email protected]>
>> CC: Eli Zaretskii<[email protected]>, Eli Osherovich<[email protected]=
om>,
>>          [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].=
ac.jp
>>
>> one based on overlays, which is what was originally suggested for this
>> purpose by Ken'ichi Handa, but is currently not working because the
>> characters in overlays don't participate in the bidi algorithm (Eli
>> thinks that would make things too slow).
>
> If by "characters in overlays" you mean display strings,

I guess yes. To be very specific, it's the before-string and=20
after-string properties mentioned on=20
http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Overlay-Properties.html.

> then they are
> not yet reordered because I didn't have enough time to make that
> happen yet,

Okay, we'll wait. But please note that we are interested not in the=20
reordering of the text inside each property, but in the text inside the=20
properties participating in the overall bidi algorithm and reordering of=20
the underlying text.

> not because I think they would be slow.

If speed is no longer an issue, that's great.

Regards,   Martin.

> If you mean
> something else, you should know that overlays that specify other
> properties _are_ supported.
>
>

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