Thanks for posting these news about bidi support in Emacs, I have been eagerly waiting for this to happen.
Regarding working with Emacs on typesetting Hebrew and Arabic, I have been running Emacs with the -nw option (no X) on mlterm on Linux and Terminal.app on MacOS X; these terminals do handle bidi and ligatures satisfactorily for editing XeTeX or XeLaTeX documents. Christoph On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:07:09PM +0100, Scot Becker wrote: > An addendum to my last mail about Emacs bidi support. > > I spoke a little too soon. Although the bidi functionality in the > emacs development branch is usable, as I said, and the developers are > keen for feedback and testers, it doesn't fully handle vocalized > Hebrew, since the work on character composition is still in progress. > I hadn't noticed that because something about Unicode Hebrew fonts > actually makes the vowels sit rightly when Hebrew text is set within a > LTR (e.g. English) paragraph. If, on the other hand, the paragraph > itself is set RTL (i.e. if it starts with Hebrew), the visual > composition provided by the fonts doesn't work, and the vowels appear > to follow the consonants which they should be under or over.. > > As far as I can tell, this is only a visual problem. The text is > correctly passed on to , e.g. XeTeX and will be typeset correctly. Of > course, if you are typesetting unvocalised Hebrew or Hebrew embedded > within LTR paragraphs, you won't usually see the problem. > > @Juan, Thanks for alerting us to Easymacs. It looks like a good > project (though since it hasn't been loved since 2007, it's missed a > few Emacs releases, and might need some updating). > > Scot > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Dr. Christoph Unger SIL International Hammerhof 23 67308 Albisheim Germany Phone: +49 6355 989939 -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
