On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:39:07 +0200
Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 19:45:13 +0000
> > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
> >
> > Yes. If one has a text composed of LTR and RTL paragraphs, one has
> > to choose how far apart their starting margins are. I think that
> > could get complicated for plain text if the terminal has unbounded
> > width.
>
> But no real-life terminal does. The width is always bounded.
The Emacs terminal (M-x term) seems to be a reasonable approximation,
with the scroll-left and scroll-right commands changing the margins'
separations. This is an example of a terminal that has lines with
left-to-right character paths and lines with right-to-left
character paths. (Such lines are necessarily separated by blank
lines.) Geometrically, column positions on left-to-right and
right-to-left character paths are incomparable - resizing the window
and scrolling move them differently.
Richard.
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