> From: Sascha Wilde <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:44:19 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > > 8. User control of visual order > [...] > > Emacs could > > have a command called, say, `make-paragraph-left-to-right' that did > > its job simply by inserting LRM at the beginning of the paragraph. > > I would suggest that Emacs should also have a way to visualize the > otherwise invisible text direction marks so that: > > - it becomes transparent to the user whether the direction of an > specific portion of the text is explicit or implicit defined > > - the user is provided with a simple way to remove the marks in case he > wants to. (By simply deleting them the way he would do with any other > regular character.)
Yes. That's what this part of my longish message was trying to say: In addition, being able to show these formatting codes to the user is a valuable feature, because the way reordered text looks might not be otherwise understood or changed easily. The "direction marks" you mention are the "formatting codes" I wrote about. _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
