Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "kefas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That is easily done by assigning the U-codes to some > keys on the keyboard, but I dont know how to combine > this with the pressing and releasing of CAPS. > MSKBLC.exe , keyboard-layout-creator, does not allow > for that. Hmmm actually, if one puts the alt

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-02 Thread kefas
See inserted remarks. On Sunday 31 October 2004 05:05 am, you wrote: > If you're going to quote an rtl phrase in an ltr > context, you want to use an embedding. In plaintext, > this would mean putting an RLE (U+202B) character > before the phrase and a PDF (U+202C)after it. That is easily done by

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ? Combinable accents and vowels needed.

2004-11-02 Thread kefas
RtL-characters are a major break-through in Unicode! Please see inserted remarks to your comments! On Monday 01 November 2004 10:16 pm, you wrote: > From: "kefas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a > > convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the > > cursor, but

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-02 Thread John Cowan
Doug Ewell scripsit: > I've never understood why writing Hebrew or Arabic left-to-right is > called "visual" order anyway. These are RTL scripts; they are supposed > to be not only written, but also read, right-to-left. Wouldn't a reader > of Hebrew or Arabic consider RTL to BE the "visual" orde

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-01 Thread Chris Jacobs
> I've never understood why writing Hebrew or Arabic left-to-right is > called "visual" order anyway. These are RTL scripts; they are supposed > to be not only written, but also read, right-to-left. Wouldn't a reader > of Hebrew or Arabic consider RTL to BE the "visual" order? I see it thusly:

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-01 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 09:48 PM 11/1/2004, Doug Ewell wrote: Philippe Verdy wrote: > Visual entry should never be used. It was used for some legacy > encodings to render text on devices that don't implement the Bidi > algorithm and can only render text as LTR. Nobody enters RTL text in > "pseudo-visual" LTR order; on

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-01 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy wrote: > Visual entry should never be used. It was used for some legacy > encodings to render text on devices that don't implement the Bidi > algorithm and can only render text as LTR. Nobody enters RTL text in > "pseudo-visual" LTR order; only the logical input order is needed. I

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-01 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "kefas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the space-character jumps to the far right. Is there a RtL-space? In MS-Word and OpenOffice I can only change whole paragraphs to RtL-entry. But quoting just a f

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-10-31 Thread Doug Ewell
fantasai wrote: > kefas wrote: >> Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient >> RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the >> space-character jumps to the far right. Is there a >> RtL-space? >> In MS-Word and OpenOffice I can only change whole >> paragraphs to RtL-entry. But

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-10-30 Thread fantasai
kefas wrote: Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the space-character jumps to the far right. Is there a RtL-space? In MS-Word and OpenOffice I can only change whole paragraphs to RtL-entry. But quoting just a few words in hebr

RE: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-10-30 Thread Jony Rosenne
MS Word "guesses" whether the space is RTL or LTR. When the keyboard is set to Hebrew or Arabic, space is RTL. Jony > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kefas > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 5:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: