Hebrew in markup

[Dov Grobgeld]

Does emacs already support the relatively new UniCode isolate characters
LRI, RLI, FSI, PDI? These are perfect for separating markup text direction
(which is typically L2R) from the flowing text.

Dov



On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Hebrew in markup":
> > If your markup interpreter supports HTML entities, then LRM is ‎
> > and you can guess what the RLM is. Even more useful is the
> > Right-To-Left Embedding character which is HTML entity ‫
>
> Very nice! I tried this magic incantation in github and it's a good
> start:
>
> https://github.com/nyh/osv/wiki/Trying
>
> Note how the third paragraph, which I started with the incantation
> "‫",
> has the correct right-to-left order.
>
> What is still very suboptimal about this solution is that:
>
> 1. You need to manually type that ugly incantation on every Hebrew
> paragraph.
>
> 2. The paragraph is not right-justified (I guess there's a separate
> incantation to do that).
>
> 3. Github's "editor" makes it really difficult to type and edit these
> kind of paragraphs.
>
> I wish things could have been much simpler - as in bidiv.
>
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