From: fantasai (fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net)
Date: Sat Oct 30 2004 - 22:05:44 CST
kefas wrote:
> Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient
> RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the
> space-character jumps to the far right. Is there a
> RtL-space?
> In MS-Word and OpenOffice I can only change whole
> paragraphs to RtL-entry. But quoting just a few
> words in hebrew WITHIN a paragraph would be helpful to
> many.
> Related: The other Hebrew characters in the alphabetic
> presentation forms insert themselves in LtR-fashion?
> Why this difference?
> I read about Logical and Visual entry, but don't see
> how that answers my 2 questions above.
If you're going to quote an rtl phrase in an ltr context,
you want to use an embedding. In plaintext, this would
mean putting an RLE (U+202B) character before the phrase
and a PDF (U+202C)after it. (In HTML, you'd enclose the
text in an element and set its 'dir' attribute to 'rtl'.)
I don't know how to access those characters from the
word processor menus, though.
~fantasai
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