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Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status.
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status. |
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Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:57:45 +0200 (IST) |
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> Shouldn't we look at existing user interfaces for this?
I already did ;-) What I wrote was based on experience with a word
processor (not MS-Word) which supports diacriticals.
I can describe how it went about deletion and insertion, but perhaps
people want to come up woth their ideas first.
> I don't know how hebrew with diacriticals is written,
> but for compositions in Latin-1 the case is clear: You type the accent
> before you type the letter, and you erase the entire composition by
> hitting delete once.
This is certainly a possibility, but I think it's not very convenient
one. For example, it happens that you have letters already written, and
then you decide to add a diacritical to disambiguate the word (since
there are quite a few words which, when you omit the diacriticals, look
identical, but have a very difficult meaning). It would be inconvenient
to delete the letter only to type it (the same letter!) again.
- [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Roozbeh Pournader, 2001/12/12
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/20
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/23
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/23
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/23
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Matan Ninio, 2001/12/23
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Matan Ninio, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Yair Friedman (Jerusalem), 2001/12/24
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Points composition - status., Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/24