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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Culver <crculver@christopherculver.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: org auto table formatting is confused by bidi text [8.2.3c (8.2.3c-elpa @ /home/crculver/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20131115/)]
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 06:17:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9EF45227-B9C2-4572-916C-FFF14656A032@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y54mev3v.fsf@aura.christopherculver.com>

Hi Christopher,

Org can handle variable width of characters in tables only if the width is an integer multiple of ascii characters.  I do not know if fonts exist that behave like this in your case.  However, for a plain text, there is no other way to fix this.

- Carsten

On 17.11.2013, at 19:33, Christopher Culver <crculver@christopherculver.com> wrote:

> I started creating the little table below (comparing a few words
> across Central Asian languages):
> 
> | Tatar               | Farsi  | Arabic | Comment |   |
> |---------------------+--------+--------+---------+---|
> | igtibar ‘attention’ | اعتبار |        |         |   |
> | xormat ‘respect’    | حرمة   | حرمة   |         |   |
> |                     |        |        |         |   |
> 
> When I press "Tab" within the second row of the table body (the one
> beginning with "xormat"), the table is not automatically aligned as it
> should be: note that the | divider in that row refuses to move to the
> right so that it is below the | divider of the first row. It appears
> that the Arabic text confuses org-mode or whatever Emacs function it
> relies on here.
> 
> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.4)
> of 2013-09-27 on trouble, modified by Debian
> Package: Org-mode version 8.2.3c (8.2.3c-elpa @ /home/crculver/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20131115/)
> 
> current state:
> ==============
> (setq
> org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe org-src-native-tab-command-maybe org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe
> 		      org-babel-header-arg-expand)
> org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-default-hook org-babel-speed-command-hook)
> org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
> org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe)
> org-log-done t
> org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
> org-agenda-include-diary t
> org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
> org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
> org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
> org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer)
> org-mode-hook '(#[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
> 		   [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all append local] 5]
> 		 #[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
> 		   [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result-all append local] 5]
> 		 org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes)
> org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point org-babel-execute-safely-maybe)
> org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks
> 		  org-cycle-show-empty-lines org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
> org-modules '(org-bbdb org-bibtex org-crypt)
> org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
> org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe)
> org-completion-use-ido t
> org-reveal-start-hook '(org-decrypt-entry)
> org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer)
> )
> 
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-26  5:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-17 18:33 Bug: org auto table formatting is confused by bidi text [8.2.3c (8.2.3c-elpa @ /home/crculver/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20131115/)] Christopher Culver
2013-11-26  5:17 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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