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Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:42:34 +0200

> From: (Yannick Duchêne) <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:12:06 +0100
> 
> Le Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:35:24 +0100, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> a  
> écrit:
> > GNU Emacs is primarily an editor for programming languages.
> I forget to say : I'm not sure it's primarily indented to be used for  
> programming language. A lot of people use Emacs to edit HTML document, TeX  
> presentation, XML structured news papers, and so on, and me, I came to it  
> with literate programming in mind, and literate programming make heavy use  
> of natural language text. And what about comments in program source any  
> way ? While it's true Emacs is an heavily scriptable editor, this does not  
> implies its sole purpose is to be used for this, not this implies it is  
> primarily to be used with Latin language (by the way, the same trouble  
> comes with TeX and derivatives, which fails to properly handle non-latin  
> languages).

Don't worry.  The development of support for bidirectional editing in
Emacs has an explicit goal of supporting all the features you describe
above.  The only problem is the slow progress...





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