Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status.

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> Shouldn't we look at existing user interfaces for this?

I already did ;-)  What I wrote was based on experience with a word 
processor (not MS-Word) which supports diacriticals.

I can describe how it went about deletion and insertion, but perhaps 
people want to come up woth their ideas first.

> I don't know how hebrew with diacriticals is written,
> but for compositions in Latin-1 the case is clear: You type the accent
> before you type the letter, and you erase the entire composition by
> hitting delete once.

This is certainly a possibility, but I think it's not very convenient 
one.  For example, it happens that you have letters already written, and 
then you decide to add a diacritical to disambiguate the word (since 
there are quite a few words which, when you omit the diacriticals, look 
identical, but have a very difficult meaning).  It would be inconvenient 
to delete the letter only to type it (the same letter!) again.