Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew text with points

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:

> I have added a screenshot of our bidi-enabled Emacs showing Hebrew
> sentences with points.  
> 
>   http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi/

Thanks!

> I have already consulted two native speakers.  They said it is not
> perfect but acceptable.

I'd say it's perfect.  What were the reasons people regarded the display 
as ``not perfect''?

I do think that a decent way of typing points is important; asking users 
to know the Unicode codepoints is too much.

The reason I think this is important is that, IMHO, any experimental 
feature like this should first and foremost be used to distill the UI 
issues and understand any  potential problems with using the feature(s).  

If you agree, you will probably also agree that the details of the UI 
should be much more important than the quality of the underlying 
implementation.  Issues like input methods, character insertion and 
deletion, mouse operations (including cut-n-paste), handling of text 
properties and overlays put on bidi text, etc. -- all these are IMHO much 
more important to try to implement and get user feedback about than 
to worry occasional inaccuracy of bidi reordering or redisplay problems 
that require C-l here and there.

Thanks again for working on this!