The correct Unicodeā„6.3 way to do this would be with the unicode isolation characters. I.e. you would wrap each of the columns with <FSI>column contents<BDI>. Does emacs honor these? Should be easy to test.
Regards, Dov On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: > 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 >