Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Display of continuation lines

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) wrote:

> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > As I slowly work on coding the sequential bidi algorithm suited for
> > Emacs, one issue presented itself that I thought would be useful to
> > discuss: how do we want to display continuation lines.
> [...]
> > The question is, given a bidirectional text:
> >
> >       abcdeABCDEFGH
> >
> > do we want it to be displayed like this:
> >
> >       abcdeHGF\
> >       EDCBA
> >
> > or like this:
> >
> >       abcdeCBA\
> >       HGFED
> 
> Whatever you do, there will be cases where it won't look good.  You can
> see this in the newspapers where narrow columns are common... Go for the
> simple solution instead.

The Unicode BiDi Alg. UAX#9, outputs the second one, that is the
correct one too, you naturally read each line completely and then go
to the next line...

-- 
Behdad
22 Mehr 1380, 2001 Oct 14

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