Re: Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll

[tomas]

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On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:21:02PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:

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> Rigid hscrolling is well defined with proportional fonts.

but it seems to me it would interact badly with window width changes?

(note that my former disclaimer in the mail to Eli still applies. I'm
far from expert in that matter, and whereas I once learnt an R2L
language, even that is very rusty).

> I don't think Emacs tries to do hscroll properly with proportional
> fonts even now with all text L2R.  It would be good to implement this.

That would be nice, yes. AFAIR there was an attempt to use floats as
window positions?

> Handling R2L text too in a rigid way would not be much harder.

See above. As surprising as Eli's approach seems at first, it looks more
convincing to me each time I think about it.

Regards
- -- tomás
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