http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html The LRM and RLM characters do not have to be invisible. I agree that when I'm editing markup I prefer to see all the control characters.
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 ‫ There is a table of useful RTL-related HTML entities at the bottom of this page: http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2015, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Hebrew in markup": >> But I could not figure a simple way with any of those to get decent >> control of bidi. Or specifically: >> >> * Make the whole document RTL >> * Make various paragraphs LTR >> >> I guess I need to override some styles. With asciidoc I could not find a >> simple way to do that and ended up having to create my own separate >> "bidi" style. I didn't yet check all the various reSt and markdown >> implementations. Any better alternatives? > > I see the discussion in this thread focused on how to edit such a > document, but I think there's a deeper issue here - not how to edit > this document, but how the different "markdown" displayers and > converters (the most popular is, of course, githaps) will *display* > the resulting document. > > 15 years ago, I approached the same problem in pure-text documents > (such as emails) by inventing my own conventions (embodied in the "bidiv" > program) which automatically determines each paragraph's direction > in a "natural" (I think) way: I decided on a convention that paragraphs > are separated by a blank line, and a paragraph's direction is the direction > of its first directioned character. > > It would be wonderful if popular markdown converters would be added > a similar automatic direction convention, so Hebrew paragraphs would > "just work" (and be right-aligned) without any concious changes to the > text needed. Seems very easy to add this support to any particular > markdown converter (I'd start with github's...). > > Alternatively, (or additionally,) special markdown conventions could be > added to control directionality. > > Unicode also has the LRM, RLM characters, but I *don't* recommend > those - I hate invisible characters in my documents. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Apr 1 2015, 12 Nisan 5775 > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Linux: Because rebooting is for adding > http://nadav.harel.org.il |new hardware. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
