Re: [emacs-bidi] Callbacks?

[Gregg Reynolds]

Martin Duerst wrote:
...
> At the last Internationalization and Unicode Conference,
> I presented a paper that looked at the problems of displaying
> (X)HTML or XML with bidi text.
> (http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/2005/pub/IUC28-bidi/IUC28.html,
> see also http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/2005/pub/IUC28-bidi/
> for more pointers)

An implementation technique I'd like to see is to simply use background 
color to indicate which weakly-directional characters in a bidi string 
have been reordered by the algorithm.  That way if I see e.g. >" with 
the "reordered-background-color" I can either do the rearrangement in my 
head or add a direction override.

-g