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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2012-04-25 11:30:59 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2012-04-25 11:30:59 +0300 |
| commit | 84412f2cbb7f282c15857493602b80f60e562051 (patch) | |
| tree | 27bbfe0ede4998d833adba3fae1f5436eba045b7 | |
| parent | acb71f1dad7b265eef5c5111bf15c3c612d1b19f (diff) | |
| download | emacs-84412f2cbb7f282c15857493602b80f60e562051.tar.gz | |
Better indexing of "base direction" of paragraphs in the user manual.
doc/emacs/mule.texi (Bidirectional Editing): Improve indexing. Minor
wording tweaks.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/mule.texi | 12 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog index 18428c0ba48..deb10e0e488 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2012-04-25 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> + + * mule.texi (Bidirectional Editing): Improve indexing. Minor + wording tweaks. + 2012-04-15 Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org> * misc.texi (emacsclient Options): More clarifications. diff --git a/doc/emacs/mule.texi b/doc/emacs/mule.texi index 5f0e138deef..9c1d908f882 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/mule.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/mule.texi @@ -1763,15 +1763,17 @@ non-@code{nil}, Emacs reorders characters that have right-to-left directionality when they are displayed. The default value is @code{t}. +@cindex base direction of paragraphs +@cindex paragraph, base direction Each paragraph of bidirectional text can have its own @dfn{base direction}, either right-to-left or left-to-right. (Paragraph @c paragraph-separate etc have no influence on this? boundaries are empty lines, i.e.@: lines consisting entirely of -whitespace characters.) Text in left-to-right paragraphs begins at -the left margin of the window and is truncated or continued when it -reaches the right margin. By contrast, text in right-to-left -paragraphs begins at the right margin and is continued or truncated at -the left margin. +whitespace characters.) Text in left-to-right paragraphs begins on +the screen at the left margin of the window and is truncated or +continued when it reaches the right margin. By contrast, text in +right-to-left paragraphs is displayed starting at the right margin and +is continued or truncated at the left margin. @vindex bidi-paragraph-direction Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph dynamically, |