Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Hebrew tutorial

[Yair F]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> 2 The section "NOTICE: The main purpose of the Emacs tutorial is to teach you
>>  the most important standard Emacs commands (key bindings)."
>>  etc. is not localized. I believe this is a bug as well.
>
> This is inserted by tutorial.el, and it is in English in all the
> tutorials.
>
The it is a bug not-specific to  Hebrew. :)

>> 3. Please use the Hebrew Maqaf instead of hyphen.
>
> Why? what's wrong with the hyphen?

Despite what most of us have been accustomed in the last 30 years,
hyphen is foreign
to the Hebrew language. Take another look at the newspapers or books published
by serious publishers.

> This is how you are supposed to write acronyms preceded by articles.
> If you write שע"ג, it could be interpreted as a 3-letter acronym,
> which it isn't.

Let's just settle on not using acronyms then. :)