(Only a suggestion)<br>Perhaps you already know another great variation of Emacs: Easymacs, of P. Heslin. It is very useful for non programmers or those who use emacs for *texing. By the way it's the same as Emacs, but easier (more common keybindings or keystrokes). I don't know if it also could be better for your purposes, but I think so.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/19 Scot Becker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scot.becker@gmail.com">scot.becker@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Emacs users and potential Emacs users might be interested to know that<br>
the development branch of Emacs now has working basic bidi support<br>
which is in need of wider testing. I can't testify to Arabic, Syriac<br>
or other RTL languages, but I've had good luck with vocalized Hebrew<br>
in the past few days. It makes typesetting XeLaTeX with Hebrew in<br>
Emacs much nicer.<br>
<br>
To try it out you'll need:<br>
<br>
1. The latest development sources of Emacs, including bzr and all the<br>
Emacs prereq's.<br>
<br>
In Debian-based Linux distributions, that's available using something like:<br>
$ sudo apt-get build-dep emacs23<br>
$ sudo apt-get bzr<br>
mkdir ~/src/emacs<br>
cd ~/src/emacs<br>
<br>
Full instructions for building Emacs are in the INSTALL file:<br>
Mac users see here:<br>
<a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS" target="_blank">http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS</a><br>
<br>
2. For Hebrew and Yiddish, you'll want the brand-new input methods<br>
for Hebrew and Yiddish. See the attachment to this message:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bidi/597" target="_blank">http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bidi/597</a><br>
<br>
I see that Emacs contains an older Arabic input method, which may<br>
also work. I don't know.<br>
<br>
3. That's it. Build Emacs.<br>
To test bidi, evaluate this:<br>
(setq-default bidi-display-reordering t)<br>
<br>
At this point you can start up your bidi XeLaTeX files and hack away.<br>
<br>
To load the above mentioned Hebrew input methods:<br>
M-x load-library RET /path/to/abovementioned/hebrew.el<br>
M-x set-input-method RET hebrewTAB<br>
(to see the choices for Hebrew. There's a nice set of options, both<br>
for those with Hebrew-keyboard fingers and those who want a phonetic<br>
system. See the file hebrew.el for details.)<br>
<br>
It's a little bit of work to get it up and going, and if you find a<br>
bug it's another bit of work to file a proper report on the GNU bug<br>
tracker, but the developers are responsive, and keen to have bug<br>
reports. I think it's fair to say that bidi support is fairly'<br>
stable, perhaps even outright usable!<br>
<br>
You might find it instructive to read the last few weeks of the<br>
emacs-bidi mailing list, to catch up.<br>
<a href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bidi" target="_blank">http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bidi</a><br>
<br>
You can also send your questions to that list by subscribing here:<br>
<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi" target="_blank">http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi</a><br>
<br>
Hope this is of interest to someone.<br>
<br>
Scot<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-----------------------------------------<br>Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente<br>Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad<br>Área de Latín<br>Universidad de Zaragoza<br>Email: jffraileATunizar.es<br>
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