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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew)
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew) |
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Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:45:56 +0300 |
> From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:21:58 +0530
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Since you know much more than I do about PostScript and PS printers,
> may I ask you a question: if one sends RTL text embedded in a PS
> program to a PS printer, does the printer have the capability to
> reorder RTL text when it prints it? That is, if you send a string of
> RTL characters that way, are they printed in reverse order? Or do PS
> printers need the text in the "visual" order, already reordered for
> display?
>
> Two things to remember about PS printer:
> - It's like dumb terminal which places characters left to right unless
> specified otherwise.
> - It doesn't understand unicode, let alone RTL re-ordering.
Thanks. Then maybe we should expose to Lisp the Emacs bidi reordering
engine, in the form of a function that would accept a string and
return that string reordered for display according to the UBA. Let me
know if that would help you improve the ps-print machinery.
- Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Anand Tamariya, 2021/08/10
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/10
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Anand Tamariya, 2021/08/10
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/11
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Anand Tamariya, 2021/08/11
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/11
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Anand Tamariya, 2021/08/12
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/12
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Anand Tamariya, 2021/08/12
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Anand Tamariya, 2021/08/13
- Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/11