Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:34:32 +0300
> 
> >  'display '(bidi-reorder BASE-DIRECTION)
> 
> I wonder is it possible to add a new property `dir', so you have
> to check just two properties `display' and `dir' in bidi.c?
> 
> In HTML, the `dir' attribute specifies the base direction (ltr, rtl) of text:
> 
>   <p dir="ltr">text</p>
>   <p dir="rtl">text</p>

Your `dir' is my BASE-DIRECTION.  That is, modes that support HTML
will put a display property with the above form of spec on "text", and
set the BASE-DIRECTION value according to dir=.  So my proposal should
be sufficient for rendering HTML and XML as well.