Hi, I'm re-sending my last message as it appears I accidentally didn't send it to the list. I've also added the lyx-devel, as it seems to be more appropriate.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 17:22, Guy Rutenberg <guyrutenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 11:05, Daniel <xraco...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> >> However, this is with an English, German, etc. keyboard layout. This >> changes if I switch to the Hebrew keyboard layout. But then the Hebrew >> keyboard layout seems to have parenthesis switched relative to the >> English: >> > > I'm referring to the case of using Hebrew keyboard layout. > >> >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_keyboard#/media/File:Hebrew_keyboard_layout.png >> >> > I don't know how made that diagram, but I'm pretty sure that he didn't use > an actual Hebrew keyboard. I have around seven different keyboards around > me right now from different manufacturers, non have this weird things with > reversed parenthesis. Even the actual keyboard photo in the Wiki article > shows the parenthesis to be normal and not reversed as in the diagram. > > >> So, if you are using a Hebrew keyboard layout, then LyX seems to behave >> correctly. But in that case I am wondering why other applications don't >> behave that way for you. > > > Because LyX behavior is unexpected to the normal user. > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 13:11, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> >> >> Please comment here: >> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11191 >> >> We generally need to audit LyX's behavior with bracket/parens input in >> RTL, but we urgently need input from experienced users. >> >> > I've added a new comment there as well. I'll gladly help to fix this issue > if someone can point me in the right direction. > I've looked again at the bug and the patch linked there. It seems that the code handling parenthesis had been moved to somewhere else. Where does it resides now? I want to try and patch it so it won't reverse parenthesis in hebrew. Thanks, Guy
