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From: Itai B. <ita...@gm...> - 2017-07-02 00:53:03
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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? >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bluefish-community mailing list >>> Blu...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluefish-community >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Bluefish-community mailing list >> Blu...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluefish-community >> |