Re: [emacs-bidi] debugging visual-to-logical

[Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)]

"Ehud Karni" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:50:50 +0200, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
>> Attached is how my sentence looks like in BiDi Word.  The first two
>> paragraphs are LTR the last two are RTL. The 2nd and 4th sentences have
>> LRM between the space after ':' and the '02'.
>> 
>> Is this a bug/non-conformance?  I'm sorry that I use MS as reference,
>> but being CVS-challenged I have to wait to the release of FriBiDi.
>
> Which M$Windows and which application ?

Word2K on Win2K, but this is the same all the way from word 6 on W3.11
days.

> I checked it with W98 (on command line, i.e. just OS support) and my
> results are different.

The OS support (including Notepad) only give LTR paragraph context -
no matter what the 1st character is.

> I think that each of us may play with M$ OSs
> but it should not be used as reference.

That was never my intention. I apologize if it made too much noise, but
we might have learned some more on the reference application and
classification of some of the punctuation.

The original idea was to find some good test cases from my working
experience.  I'll try to find Einstein in the attic and see If I can play
with this as well.