Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-23, Dotan Cohen wrote: For LyX (or LaTeX) it is important to know in what language you are writing. Not only the directionality, but also font encoding (while LyX uses Unicode by now, LaTeX does not) and hyphenation depend on this. I see, I did not realize that LaTeX does not

Re: English appearing backwards

Thanks, Gunter. I will put some time into this. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-23, Dotan Cohen wrote: For LyX (or LaTeX) it is important to know in what language you are writing. Not only the directionality, but also font encoding (while LyX uses Unicode by now, LaTeX does not) and hyphenation depend on this. I see, I did not realize that LaTeX does not

Re: English appearing backwards

Thanks, Gunter. I will put some time into this. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-23, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> For LyX (or LaTeX) it is important to know in what language you are >> writing. Not only the directionality, but also font encoding (while LyX >> uses Unicode by now, LaTeX does not) and hyphenation depend on this. > I see, I did not realize that LaTeX does

Re: English appearing backwards

Thanks, Gunter. I will put some time into this. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: ... I have several different keyboard layouts defined. I activate the different keyboard layout and just start typing. The application handles directionality. Many applications have directionality issues, but I've never come across one in Linux that

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: According to Wikipedia, Lyx has substantial support for bidirectional writing. So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx. Not really. It's a problem of both of you. Like the Greek support, bidi support in LaTeX predates the advent of Unicode and

Re: English appearing backwards

For LyX (or LaTeX) it is important to know in what language you are writing. Not only the directionality, but also font encoding (while LyX uses Unicode by now, LaTeX does not) and hyphenation depend on this. I see, I did not realize that LaTeX does not support unicode. I suppose that it

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: ... I have several different keyboard layouts defined. I activate the different keyboard layout and just start typing. The application handles directionality. Many applications have directionality issues, but I've never come across one in Linux that

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: According to Wikipedia, Lyx has substantial support for bidirectional writing. So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx. Not really. It's a problem of both of you. Like the Greek support, bidi support in LaTeX predates the advent of Unicode and

Re: English appearing backwards

For LyX (or LaTeX) it is important to know in what language you are writing. Not only the directionality, but also font encoding (while LyX uses Unicode by now, LaTeX does not) and hyphenation depend on this. I see, I did not realize that LaTeX does not support unicode. I suppose that it

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: ... > I have several different keyboard layouts defined. I activate the > different keyboard layout and just start typing. The application > handles directionality. Many applications have directionality issues, > but I've never come across one in Linux that

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: > According to Wikipedia, Lyx "has substantial support for bidirectional > writing". So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx. Not really. It's a problem of "both of you". Like the Greek support, bidi support in LaTeX predates the advent of Unicode

Re: English appearing backwards

> For LyX (or LaTeX) it is important to know in what language you are > writing. Not only the directionality, but also font encoding (while LyX > uses Unicode by now, LaTeX does not) and hyphenation depend on this. > I see, I did not realize that LaTeX does not support unicode. I suppose that it

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/2/19 Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de: On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their

Re: English appearing backwards

Then this is a bug. Report it at bugzilla.lyx.org with a minimal example and context-information (KDE or Gnome or ...). I will collect more information then file bugs. You can define keybindings to language english and language ... to speed things up. Thanks, I will look into that. This

Re: English appearing backwards

According to Wikipedia, Lyx has substantial support for bidirectional writing. So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

Re: English appearing backwards

I'm not sure if this helps, but a colleague of mine had this to say when I spoke to him about the issue: Knuth actually wrote a version of TeX called TeX-XeT in order to support bidirectional printing. Back in 1987 he and Pierre MacKay wrote an article about the problem, Mixing right-to-left

Re: English appearing backwards

I'm not sure if this helps, but a colleague of mine had this to say when I spoke to him about the issue: Knuth actually wrote a version of TeX called TeX-XeT in order to support bidirectional printing. Back in 1987 he and Pierre MacKay wrote an article about the problem, Mixing

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/2/19 Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de: On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their

Re: English appearing backwards

Then this is a bug. Report it at bugzilla.lyx.org with a minimal example and context-information (KDE or Gnome or ...). I will collect more information then file bugs. You can define keybindings to language english and language ... to speed things up. Thanks, I will look into that. This

Re: English appearing backwards

According to Wikipedia, Lyx has substantial support for bidirectional writing. So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

Re: English appearing backwards

I'm not sure if this helps, but a colleague of mine had this to say when I spoke to him about the issue: Knuth actually wrote a version of TeX called TeX-XeT in order to support bidirectional printing. Back in 1987 he and Pierre MacKay wrote an article about the problem, Mixing right-to-left

Re: English appearing backwards

I'm not sure if this helps, but a colleague of mine had this to say when I spoke to him about the issue: Knuth actually wrote a version of TeX called TeX-XeT in order to support bidirectional printing. Back in 1987 he and Pierre MacKay wrote an article about the problem, Mixing

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/2/19 Guenter Milde : >> On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I >>> can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, >>> _English_ documents come

Re: English appearing backwards

> Then this is a bug. Report it at bugzilla.lyx.org with a minimal example and > context-information (KDE or Gnome or ...). > I will collect more information then file bugs. > You can define keybindings to "language english" and "language ..." to > speed things up. > Thanks, I will look into

Re: English appearing backwards

According to Wikipedia, Lyx "has substantial support for bidirectional writing". So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

Re: English appearing backwards

I'm not sure if this helps, but a colleague of mine had this to say when I spoke to him about the issue: "Knuth actually wrote a version of TeX called TeX-XeT in order to support bidirectional printing. Back in 1987 he and Pierre MacKay wrote an article about the problem, "Mixing

Re: English appearing backwards

> I'm not sure if this helps, but a colleague of mine had this to say when I > spoke to him about the issue: > > "Knuth actually wrote a version of TeX called TeX-XeT in order to > support bidirectional printing. Back in 1987 he and Pierre MacKay wrote an > article about the problem, "Mixing

English appearing backwards

I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left, like this: sdrawkcab si sihT I have read the relevant pages on the wiki, but nowhere does it

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left Also if the document language is set to English? I intend

Re: English appearing backwards

2009/2/19 Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de: On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left Also if

English appearing backwards

I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left, like this: sdrawkcab si sihT I have read the relevant pages on the wiki, but nowhere does it

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left Also if the document language is set to English? I intend

Re: English appearing backwards

2009/2/19 Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de: On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left Also if

English appearing backwards

I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left, like this: sdrawkcab si sihT I have read the relevant pages on the wiki, but nowhere does it

Re: English appearing backwards

On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I > can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, > _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left Also if the document language is set to English? > I

Re: English appearing backwards

2009/2/19 Guenter Milde : > On 2009-02-19, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I have Lyx 1.6.1 installed on a Hebrew installation of Ubuntu 8.04. I >> can create Hebrew documents fine (from what I can tell). However, >> _English_ documents come out with their text going right to left >