[XeTeX] Emacs

[Christoph Unger]

Thanks for posting these news about bidi support in Emacs, I have been
eagerly waiting for this to happen. 

Regarding working with Emacs on typesetting Hebrew and Arabic, I have
been running Emacs with the -nw option (no X) on mlterm on Linux and
Terminal.app on MacOS X; these terminals do handle bidi and ligatures
satisfactorily for editing XeTeX or XeLaTeX documents. 

Christoph

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:07:09PM +0100, Scot Becker wrote:
> An addendum to my last mail about Emacs bidi support.
> 
> I spoke a little too soon.  Although the bidi functionality in the
> emacs development branch is usable, as I said, and the developers are
> keen for feedback and testers, it doesn't fully handle vocalized
> Hebrew, since the work on character composition is still in progress.
> I hadn't noticed that because something about Unicode Hebrew fonts
> actually makes the vowels sit rightly when Hebrew text is set within a
> LTR (e.g. English) paragraph.  If, on the other hand, the paragraph
> itself is set RTL (i.e. if it starts with Hebrew), the visual
> composition provided by the fonts doesn't work, and the vowels appear
> to follow the consonants which they should be under or over..
> 
> As far as I can tell, this is only a visual problem.  The text is
> correctly passed on to , e.g. XeTeX and will be typeset correctly.  Of
> course, if you are typesetting unvocalised Hebrew or Hebrew embedded
> within LTR paragraphs, you won't usually see the problem.
> 
> @Juan, Thanks for alerting us to Easymacs.  It looks like a good
> project (though since it hasn't been loved since 2007, it's missed a
> few Emacs releases, and might need some updating).
> 
> Scot
> 
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