Re: [Bluefish-community] Bidirectional support: explicit bidi indications

[Itai B. <ita...@gm...>]

Sorry, wrong link. Here's the correct one: http://imgur.com/a/wCQQu

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 3:51 AM, Itai Berli <ita...@gm...> wrote:
> David, I gave the LaTeX \emph example only as an illustrative case
> study for the underlying need to set an explicit directionality for
> select words contained in a paragraph of a different directionality.
>
> Here's another example from a different subject domain, namely
> Cascading Style Sheets. Consider the following screenshot. The first
> line shows how the line is supposed to look. The second shows how it
> looks without embedded direction markers for the Hebrew isolate.
>
> http://imgur.com/NoK2GyP
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 3:26 AM, David <vag...@te...> wrote:
>> On 02/07/17 06:05, Itai Berli wrote:
>>> Suppose I wish to write a LaTeX document in Hebrew, and I wish to
>>> emphasize the first word in the paragraph, thus: \emph{בראשית}.
>>
>> ... and also,
>>
>> http://sites.huji.ac.il/tex/hebtex.html
>>
>>>
>>> Because the first alphabetic character in the paragraph belongs to the
>>> English alphabet, the paragraph will be left aligned and flow from
>>> left to right. However, the paragraph is really in Hebrew and
>>> therefore should be right-aligned and flow from right to left. Is
>>> there a way to affect this in Bluefish?
>>>
>>> Suppose there is a way to accomplish the above. Now that the paragraph
>>> has been explicitly configured to flow from right to left, the
>>> backslash at the beginning of the LaTeX command \emph is considered a
>>> Hebrew letter (it is a neutral symbol, and therefore assumes the
>>> directionality of the ambient environment). So the start of the
>>> paragraph will look like this: {בראשית}emph\. Is it possible to switch
>>> the direction of this expression so it will appear so: \emph{בראשית}
>>> without changing the direction of the rest of the paragraph, which
>>> should remain right-to-left?
>>>
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