Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Hebrew tutorial

[Amit Ramon]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> [2010-08-07 12:57 +0300]:

> > 3. Please use the Hebrew Maqaf instead of hyphen.
>
> I tried that, but the results look ugly, at least on MS-Windows: the
> Maqaf is composed with the preceding character and almost entirely
> blends with it as result of this composition.  Is this something
> specific to the Windows Uniscribe engine?  Is this an Emacs bug?

I think this is a (new) bug. I can see it on Linux/X, and it was
working fine until about a month ago. I reported it on the emacs-devel
list.

In principle Yair is right - in Hebrew maqaf is used to join words,
not a hyphen.