Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Dov Grobgeld
After having suffered with terrible outllook web mail for sending email at work for a long time, the system is finally able to accept SMTP connections. So I set out looking for a mail agent that has the following properties: - Ability to send HTML mail. - Ability to set the Bidi base

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: After having suffered with terrible outllook web mail for sending email at work for a long time, the system is finally able to accept SMTP connections. I suggest Thunderbird, for the following reasons: So I set out

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 06/24/2012 05:01 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: After having suffered with terrible outllook web mail for sending email at work for a long time, the system is finally able to accept SMTP connections. I suggest Thunderbird,

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Thanks Shachar and Dotan, Thinderbird with the bidiui extension seems to work great. Dov On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.bizwrote: On 06/24/2012 05:01 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:10:14 +0300 From: Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com - Ability to set the Bidi base direction explicitly of each paragraph. Paragraph direction is determined by the first letter that has strong directionality. If this is what you want, it should happen

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 06/24/2012 07:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:14:50 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Cc: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Thunderbird with the bidiui extension. Set the style to paragraph, and the directionality buttons work per paragraph זו, לדוגמא,

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Actually, it would be very nice with a emacs-based mail agent that used implicit email direction for composition, but encoded the result in explicit html (based on the resolved directions) when sending the result. Perhaps it may be done through org-mode. How to deal with incoming html mail is a

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: There is a standard way to specify paragraph directionality in emails. It is done through HTML. There is a standard way in HTML to specify directionality. Unless a recent proposed change to HTML5 is accepted, the first

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:30:47 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz CC: dotanco...@gmail.com, linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il One of the paragraphs of this email was marked as RTL for no reason other than a whim. Eli will not know which it was Of course, I do.

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 06/24/2012 10:40 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: There is a standard way to specify paragraph directionality in emails. It is done through HTML. There is a standard way in HTML to specify directionality. Unless a recent