> From: Scot Becker <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:20:25 +0100 > Cc: Emacs BIDI <[email protected]> > > I'll be very glad to get bidi+Hebrew working in Emacs.
Did you try the current Emacs development trunk? It already includes initial support for bidi Hebrew, and a simple Hebrew input method is already in place. Some advanced features of the Emacs display engine, such as bidi reordering of strings in overlays and `display' text properties, do not yet work. But otherwise editing of Hebrew text should work reasonably well, including paragraph direction control. Character composition does not yet work with bidi reordering, so currently cantillation marks will not be displayed as you'd expect. Hopefully, it will work by the time Yair finishes his input methods. Please give it a try. By the lack of comments and bug reports, I'm guessing that no one except myself uses it, which is bad for stabilizing it and weeding out bugs. > I'm not sure what sort of suggestions you're open to, but having never > learned to use an Israeli keyboard, I most enjoy using a layout that is > anglo-friendly, like the' SIL' layout which SBL also offers. > > http://www.sbl-site.org/Fonts/BiblicalHebrewSILManual.pdf I think it's good to have that as well in Emacs. > And if the layout can auto-manage the final letter forms, that's a very nice > plus as well. Native Hebrew speakers don't expect that, they type the final form themselves. We could, of course, have some kind of auto-correction minor mode, whereby letters are automatically converted to their final forms when a space or punctuation character is typed. _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
