Re: "... the window start at a meaningless point within a line."

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:19:36 +0000
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
>> 
>> > > There must be some bidi compatible order operators which express
>> > > "earlier than" etc.  I will be needing these.
>> 
>> > Define "earlier than".  Is that on screen, i.e. in the visual order,
>> > or in the buffer, i.e. in the logical order, a.k.a. "the order of
>> > buffer positions"?  These two orders are different for bidirectional
>> > text.
>> 
>> I've no experience with bidi text, or even RTL text.  Could you cite me
>> an appropriate bidi or RTL file I could play around with, even though I
>> couldn't read it.  Would I need any special set up with (for example)
>> fonts, or input methods?  In fact, before asking you to answer these I
>> should read the fine manual first.
>
> Just turn on the 'hebrew' input method and start typing.

דוד doesn't look all that different from L2R text.

-- 
David Kastrup