Re: Re: improving bidi documents display

James Cloos <[email protected]> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:58:44 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

EZ> The key to a useful discussion of these matters is to decide up
EZ> front what do we want to support and what do we want the text to
EZ> look like.

EZ> In this case, someone who knows about (La)TeX much more than I do
EZ> should first describe what TeX features would be useful when
EZ> typesetting bidirectional text.

Given that:

  the UAX is specific to plain text

  emacs' modes uses faces to differentiate syntactically different
  text runs

  the latter is essentially the same as (invisible) markup

then one could conclude that bidi runs always should be intra-face and
never inter-face, yes?

How well does >>back to default on face changes<< translate to the level
where emacs' bidi works?

-JimC
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