Questions tagged [right-to-left]
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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 ...
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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
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Wrong numbering of sections - html export - org-mode - RTL languages
This small example:
#+LANGUAGE: ar
#+HTML: <style> html,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,body { direction: rtl} </style>
* 1
** - 1. 1
** - 1. 2 !
** - 1. 3 !
* 2
** - 2. 1 !
** - 2. 2
** ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 (...
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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 | ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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