Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: kefas [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is easily done by assigning the U-codes to some keys on the keyboard, but I dont know how to combine this with the pressing and releasing of CAPS. MSKBLC.exe , keyboard-layout-creator, does not allow for that. Hmmm actually, if one puts the alternate

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-02 Thread John Cowan
Doug Ewell scripsit: I've never understood why writing Hebrew or Arabic left-to-right is called visual order anyway. These are RTL scripts; they are supposed to be not only written, but also read, right-to-left. Wouldn't a reader of Hebrew or Arabic consider RTL to BE the visual order? Of

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ? Combinable accents and vowels needed.

2004-11-02 Thread kefas
RtL-characters are a major break-through in Unicode! Please see inserted remarks to your comments! On Monday 01 November 2004 10:16 pm, you wrote: From: kefas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-02 Thread kefas
See inserted remarks. On Sunday 31 October 2004 05:05 am, you wrote: If you're going to quote an rtl phrase in an ltr context, you want to use an embedding. In plaintext, this would mean putting an RLE (U+202B) character before the phrase and a PDF (U+202C)after it. That is easily done by

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-01 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: kefas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the space-character jumps to the far right. Is there a RtL-space? In MS-Word and OpenOffice I can only change whole paragraphs to RtL-entry. But quoting just a few

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-01 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote: Visual entry should never be used. It was used for some legacy encodings to render text on devices that don't implement the Bidi algorithm and can only render text as LTR. Nobody enters RTL text in pseudo-visual LTR order; only the

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-01 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 09:48 PM 11/1/2004, Doug Ewell wrote: Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote: Visual entry should never be used. It was used for some legacy encodings to render text on devices that don't implement the Bidi algorithm and can only render text as LTR. Nobody enters RTL text

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-01 Thread Chris Jacobs
I've never understood why writing Hebrew or Arabic left-to-right is called visual order anyway. These are RTL scripts; they are supposed to be not only written, but also read, right-to-left. Wouldn't a reader of Hebrew or Arabic consider RTL to BE the visual order? I see it thusly: If this

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-10-31 Thread Doug Ewell
fantasai fantasai dot lists at inkedblade dot net wrote: kefas wrote: Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the space-character jumps to the far right. Is there a RtL-space? In MS-Word and OpenOffice I can only change whole

basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-10-30 Thread kefas
Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the space-character jumps to the far right. Is there a RtL-space? In MS-Word and OpenOffice I can only change whole paragraphs to RtL-entry. But quoting just a few words in hebrew WITHIN a

RE: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-10-30 Thread Jony Rosenne
-hebrew RtL-space ? Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the space-character jumps to the far right. Is there a RtL-space? In MS-Word and OpenOffice I can only change whole paragraphs to RtL-entry. But quoting just a few

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-10-30 Thread fantasai
kefas wrote: Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the space-character jumps to the far right. Is there a RtL-space? In MS-Word and OpenOffice I can only change whole paragraphs to RtL-entry. But quoting just a few words in