On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:39:07 +0200 Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 19:45:13 +0000 > > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <[email protected]> > > > > Yes. If one has a text composed of LTR and RTL paragraphs, one has > > to choose how far apart their starting margins are. I think that > > could get complicated for plain text if the terminal has unbounded > > width. > > But no real-life terminal does. The width is always bounded. The Emacs terminal (M-x term) seems to be a reasonable approximation, with the scroll-left and scroll-right commands changing the margins' separations. This is an example of a terminal that has lines with left-to-right character paths and lines with right-to-left character paths. (Such lines are necessarily separated by blank lines.) Geometrically, column positions on left-to-right and right-to-left character paths are incomparable - resizing the window and scrolling move them differently. Richard.
