> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:51:17 +0900 > From: Martin Duerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > > At 05:59 05/12/01, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:50:57 +0900 > >> From: Martin Duerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Cc: [email protected] > >> > >> Where and how the cursor should be displayed, which physical > >> direction it moves for cursor keys such as -> or <-, whether > >> selection is logical or visual, and so on. > > > >This was all discussed here some time ago, please be sure to read the > >list archives. > > Can you give me a pointer, e.g. to some specific message or > to the approximate date?
It was in late 1997, so it's not in the public archives, as I wrote in another mail. Sorry, I forgot about that. > >> - In our current approach, we not only change the properties of some > >> characters, but also introduce additional embedding (or occasionally > >> override) levels. Is this possible in your implementation? > > > >I'm not sure I understand: embeddings and overrides are fully > >supported, so what could be the problem? > > Well, it's similar to character properties: What you definitely > support is the interpretation of RLE,... PDF characters to > create an embedding. But as explained, we don't actually want > to include these characters. As Kenichi explained, overlays > may be a way to get the characters to the display engine > without adding it to the text. Do you think this would > do the job? Yes, overlays can do the job, if we are talking about a display feature, and if this is not going to be something we need to do for many portions of the text (since too many overlays make redisplay very slow). _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
