Do you think that you can provide some lisp code that builds the buffer contents and the display properties for the three options that ou refered to as an illustration?
I tried inserting tabs into the buffer before the vertical bars, but after reordering it still didn't come out right. Regards, Dov On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: >> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:26:35 +0300 >> From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com> >> >> Imagine you have a buffer with the following logical contents (using the >> convention that capitals are RTL characters). >> >> | abcdef | abc | >> | ABCDEF | ABC | >> >> I would like this to be displayed as: >> >> | abcdef | abc | >> | FEDCBA | CBA | >> >> The problem is that I want to each column of the table to be isolated >> (with regards to bidi influence) from other columns in the table. (Of >> course we also want to choose the table direction, but that is a >> different and solvable issue.) If there is no such separation, which >> is the behaviour currently get in emacs HEAD, then the resulting >> rendered buffer is: >> >> | abcdef | abc | >> | CBA | FEDCBA | >> >> Is this even solvable in the current emacs bidi model? > > Yes, it is. The solution involves putting segment separators between > the table columns. These could be TAB characters or a display > property whose value is (space . :width N) or (space . :align-to COL). > > Org maintainers, please ask if you need help in fixing this.
