Eli, Thanks for your fulsome replies. Now I get it.
I had assumed that 'paragraph' meant 'delimited by one or more newlines'. That was part of the problem. I can now set bidi-paragraph-direction to right-to-left, and get what I expected. Sort of. The odd thing is that I get pretty good visual composition of the characters with all of the Unicode Hebrew-vowel-capable fonts I've tried---as long as the RTL lines are left-aligned. You're right, this is just a font feature. Emacs thinks they are separate characters. But as soon as I set bidi-paragraph-direction to right-align the Hebrew lines--how it should be---I loose that visual composition on the character level, whatever the font. So for the moment, I'll keep the lines aligned wrongly, so that the text is readable, and have a look at Yair's interim work on character composition. Thanks for clearing this up. Scot _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
