Re: RFC: keyboard bindings for bidi direction markers

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 11:15:11 EDT

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    On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:

    > > In order to provide bidi users with an easy way to override the
    > > Unicode bidi algorithm (and to fix bug 2742), I am going to implement
    > > support for the Unicode direction markers (LRM and RLM), and I need
    > > intuitive keyboard bindings for inserting these. I have had a look
    > > through the currently available bindings, and would like to use Alt+>
    > > and Alt+< to insert LRM and RLM respectively.
    > >
    > > I want to use the '<' and '>' characters because (a) they will
    > > intuitive, and (b) I need keys that will be available on most
    > > keyboards (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.), and since these are basic
    > > mathematical symbols I expect this should be the case.

    > HI Tomas,
    > This sounds reasonable to me. I have no objections.

    What does msword or wordperfect use for this feature (if at all)?

    - Alan H.



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