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

[Mohsen BANAN]

James, 

I think we are talking about two different things.

The topic here is not paragraph direction. 
The topic is alignment.

Eli described it in full, the summary is:

 Eli> To fix the alignment, you need to append the LRM to each subject:

Separate from that, the gnus-summary-line-format
should remain customizable. On a larger screen, mine is:

 (setq gnus-summary-line-format ":%U%R %B %s %-60=|%4L |%-20,20f |%&user-date; 
\n")

That means, directionality can be triggered by
different fields. 

Until it is possible to fully localize Gnus/Emacs,
bidi-paragraph-direction for Summary should *always*
be left-to-right. No questions there. 

The topic is alignment. The way to do it is LRM
as Eli described.

...Mohsen

>>>>> On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:11:56 -0400, James Cloos <address@hidden> said:

  >> The same thing applies to the From Name.
  >> First LAST in the above example.

  James> As I wrote earlier, gnus' summary buffer will become r2l with its
  James> default summary line format whenever the first article's sender's
  James> name is r2l and there are no marks, since everything before the
  James> sender's name is neutral.

  James> I did encounter an example shortly after I posted that.

  James> Setting bidi-paragraph-direction to left-to-right for the Summary
  James> buffer was indeed enough to render the buffer correctly.

  James> I don't know whether any gnus users customize their Group and Summary
  James> buffers to a non-English locale and would prefer a r2l buffer, but at
  James> least for those of us in en locales setting bidi-paragraph-direction
  James> to left-to-right in gnus' Groups and Summary buffers is the Right
  James> Thing To Do.

  James> -JimC
  James> -- 
  James> James Cloos <address@hidden>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6