Re: [emacs-bidi] visual-mode, LyX

[Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> 
> > The other comment I would like to make is based on my
> > experience with LyX (for those who don't know LyX is more or
> > less a WYSIWYG interface for latex.)
> > LyX has BIDI support and also support Niqud, using MSDOS
> > truefonts and a truefont Xserver like xfstt. 
> > Is there any attempt to include such a feature for emacs-21?
> 
> I'm sorry, I cannot really comment on this because I don't really
> understand what feature(s) are you talking about.  In particular, what
> do MS-DOS fonts have to do with X, and why is it important to support
> xfstt.

xfstt is a feature of some X servers that enables them to use M$ ttf fonts.

> > This attempt may be worth copying it for the very first 
> > steps in BIDI support for emacs-21.
> 
> I'm not sure what are you suggesting.  If you mean that we should copy
> the display code from LyX, I'd doubt if it will fit into Emacs (but
> I'll certainly look, unless someone who knows can describe it).

I'm not sure, but I think that most of the bidi work is being done by
(La)Tex  using TeX-XeT???

Dekel, do you have anything to add?

>  Do you 
> have a URL for LyX?

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/lyx/