Hello, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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. *raises a hand* I'd rather preserve structure of Org documents outside of Emacs. So, `:align-to' is not an option. IIUC, I need to replace the closest space from vertical bars with #(" " 0 1 (space :width 1)) This doesn't sound too difficult. However, could someone provide tests cases so we get it right once and for all? Thank you. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou 0x80A93738