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From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Right-to-left text in org mode
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:49:12 +0300
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To: Manuel GJT <valhifi@gmail.com>
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I was able to reproduce this behavior only with by forcing the
paragraph direction to LTR or equivilantly by having a first strong
LTR character in the beginning of the paragraph. Please provide more
information about your environment, and someone might be able to help
you.

Regards,
Dov


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Manuel GJT <valhifi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I need to work in an org buffer with both left-to-right and right-to-left
> text. Although the character directionality and composition works fine, when
> writing paragraphs with visual-line-mode on the lines get inverted, i.e.,
> the line
>
> ZYX CBA
>
> appears as
>
> ZYX
> CBA
>
> instead of
>
> CBA
> ZYX
>
> The section "22.20 Bidirectional Editing" of the Emacs manual suggests
> forcing the directionality of the paragraph with RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK, but
> this does not seem to work: even with such a character beginning the line,
> (current-bidi-paragraph-direction) returns "left-to-right".
>
> The RTL MARK seems to work just fine in tables.
>
> When written in a clean text-mode buffer the same text appears with proper
> directionality. However switching from org-mode to text-mode does not
> correct directionality in said paragraphs. The issue persists even when
> visiting the file with emacs -Q.
>
> org-version 8.0.3, same issue with v. 7.9.4
>
> Your help is much appreciated.
>
> --
> Manuel GJT