Re: improving bidi documents display
Miles Bader <[email protected]> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:25:17 +0900
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Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes: > This one's different, believe me: no other text property changes the > _order_ of characters on display in creative ways. It could easily > render the text illegible, under just the right circumstances. Other > text properties are either non-intrusive, or are almost immediately > fixed by JIT Lock, or are simply rare enough to not get in our way. > This one, if used to implement partial reordering of buffer text, will > be ubiquitous in any buffer with program sources that include bidi > comments and strings, i.e. we will see it _a_lot_. I'm a bit confused by how an ordering that's "good" in (e.g.) a TeX document, would be "illegible" in another context... Can you give an example of such a case? Thanks, -Miles -- `There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'