Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew text with points

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:

> The position of points can be improved.  For example,
> 
> #######
>      #
>      #
>      #
>      .
> 
> would be better than the current
> 
> #######
>      #
>      #
>      #
>    .

I don't see this as too important.  After all, Emacs is not a typesetting 
program like TeX.

> Are Hebrew users keen
> to type points?  They usually do without points, right?

Points are used when writing poetry or song lyrics, and also when points
are required to disambuguate a word (for words whose consonants are
identical, and the context cannot unambiguously tell which word is being 
used).

It's true that points are mostly unused in daily practice, but the above 
cases are IMHO important enough to be able to type them in a convenient 
manner.

More importantly, use of points raises a number of issues, like how do 
you delete a point or replace it with another, how do you search for text 
in a way that is independent of points (i.e., imagine that a word is 
present in the buffer with points and the user searches for it without 
the points), etc.  So I think having a convenient way of typing points 
will encourage users (and you ;-) to think about these issues and suggest 
various ideas for their handling.