Questions tagged [right-to-left]
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How to search an Arabic word in text without its diacritics/accents?
In Arabic as with some other languages there is what is called diacritics to enhance pronunciation. There is no convention on how many diacritics should be written for a single word. Some use the minimum (which I prefer) just enough to disambiguate…
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How to get org-mode fully support Arabic language for export?
My intention is to write Arabic document using org-mode. Please consider the following MWE, given that my configuration in init.el has below code to enable writing of Arabic script from right to left (rtl) instead of left to right (ltr) default…
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Arabic in emacs shown as separate letters
I am trying to work with Arabic and English texts in the same buffer. They don't have to be in the same paragraphs.
A text like والإكرام و نوافج is shown as separate letters.
Contrary to English, in Arabic, the letters should change the form…
P. Ajrem
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Handling left-to-right inside right-to-left paragraphs using Emacs and AUCTeX
I'm using Emacs to typeset a document which has English as its main language but which will use Hebrew and Greek as well.
You can see on my screenshot how the \footnote command shows two open brackets as opposed to the correct open and close…
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Arabic in Terminal mode
I know that emacs supports Arabic and I have seen many questions on Arabic support but my problem here is specifically with emacs in the terminal.
It can be seen in the image bellow in the left side that the text is shown correctly in the GUI mode.…
Naheel
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How to implement character folding (stripping Arabic text from diacritics or tashkeel aka text normalization or cleansing) when doing search in Emacs?
This is a follow-up question on a previous one here looking for a solution to this very common task of searching for a string in a text irrespective of the vowel diacritics associated with. Arabic alphabet is made of 28 letters and 80 vowel…
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The org-mode table alignment issue in right-to-left languages
I really enjoy writing bidirectional text in org-mode using Emacs as it supports the rt-to-left direction out of the box. However, when it comes to org tables alignment things become very unorganized.
I have this setup in my init.el file for correct…
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How to org-export this tag into HTML?
how to export dir="rtl" into HTML file from an org buffer?
TL;DR:
I want to export this simple org-buffer written in Arabic into HTML. The direction should be from right to left. I have this setting in .emacs relevant to the language just to enable…
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Insert Text Leftwards in Overwrite Mode
How can I insert text so that the cursor stays in the same position while text I type is shifted to the left, overwriting existing text? For example:
row_title: some words
old_title: letters here
^
row_title: some words
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Ell
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RTL text with left alignment and reversed line wrapping in Org mode
Consider the following two files, identical but for the filename:
$ md5sum emacs-test-file.txt emacs-test-file.org
43305dbeb954094f63709b2889fc8e02 emacs-test-file.txt
43305dbeb954094f63709b2889fc8e02 emacs-test-file.org
Opening the former in…
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Wrong numbering of sections - html export - org-mode - RTL languages
This small example:
#+LANGUAGE: ar
#+HTML:
* 1
** - 1. 1
** - 1. 2 !
** - 1. 3 !
* 2
** - 2. 1 !
** - 2. 2
** - 2. 3 !
The html-export of org-mode looks like this:
It…
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org-agenda week view right-to-left Hebrew support (S-F-R-W-T-M-Sun) ordering
How can I view my week in org-agenda with the Days Backwards (Hebrew style)
| March
| 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Shabbat | Friday | Thursday | Wednesday | Tuesday | Monday |…
בנימן הגלילי
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How to do font-lock of double quotes in AUCTeX?
I had a hard time typing with Rt-to-Lt language and using quotes in LaTeX while keeping the font-locking of quotes. I use csquotes package latest version (Version 5.1d -- 2011) for many advantages like toggling between different variants in a style.…
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RTL text displays with characters in reverse order
I’ve migrated my config from linux to windows, and I have a problem with buffers containing RTL text (hebrew in my case) - while the alignment works the way it should (I use (setq bidi-paragraph-direction nil)), and words are displayed in the…
Jonathan Sahar
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