On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:46:28PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:27:12 +0200, > Amit Aronovitch wrote: > > > > First of all, thanks Tzafrir - I was not aware that the lyx and SI > > variants had any bidi chars in them > > (I do remember googlin and greppin around before starting to mess with > > symbol files - probably did not do that very well - since now I can > > easily find the stuff you mention...) > > > > Herouth Maoz wrote: > > > > > Actually, OpenOffice behaves better than you said. When you enter the > > > characters you may get a square, but as soon as you put some text next > > > to them, the squares disappear. At least that's what happens in my > > > environment. > > > > > > Did you try the PDF symbol? It seems that at least with the default > > fonts, PDF stays a visible square, while others appear as specialized > > cursor-like graphics. > > > > OO shows me the RLM and LRM characters as a small right-angled arrow. Took > some > time to figure out I need to put one before the text and one after. Also tried > with LRE/PDF and LRO/PDF, those showed up as squares. The problem is that they > also showed up on the pdf exported output (RLM/LRM as arrow and LRE/LRO/PDF as > spaces). How do I hide them in the output ? (debian OO 1.1.2) > > Also, what is the difference between all of these? Mainly LRE vs. LRO are > puzzling.
What charset do you use? ISO-8859-8 includes none of the special bidi chars. cp1255 contains only LRM and RLM . UTF-8 has them all. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
