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Mohsen BANAN -- محسن بنان
Emacs is a multilingual user environment. A true multilingual editor must
-support bidirectionality and shaping of characters. Perso-Arabic script require
+support bidirectionality and shaping of characters. Perso-Arabic scripts require
both of these features.
Starting with Emacs 24, full native bidi
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ open-source shaping libraries were also available.
With these in place at around 2012, I developed
two Persian input methods for emacs. These input
methods or variations of them can also be used for
-Arabic and other persoarabic scripts.
+Arabic and other Perso-Arabic scripts.
With all of these in place, Emacs has now become
-the ne plus ultra Halaal/Convivial usage
+the ne plus ultra Libre-Halaal and Convivial usage
environment for Perso-Arabic users.
Since emacs comes loaded with everything (Gnus
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ environment that can be.
My talk will be in two parts.
-In Part 1, I cover persian input methods. With an emphasis on "Banan
+In Part 1, I cover Persian input methods. With an emphasis on "Banan
Multi-Character (Reverse) Transliteration Persian Input Method". The
software is part of base emacs distribution. Full documentation is available
at:
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ of bidi on existing emacs applications, including:
- Calendar:
- Ramifications of bidi on display.
- - Use of persian text for Persian (solar) calendar.
- - Use of arabic text for Muslem (lunar) calendar.
+ - Use of Persian text for Persian (solar) calendar.
+ - Use of Arabic text for Muslem (lunar) calendar.
- AUCTeX: Persian typesetting with XeLaTeX
- - Option of having Perso-Arabic alias fo all latex commands.
+ - Option of having right-to-left Perso-Arabic aliases for all latex commands.
References:
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ References:
- Blee and Persian-Blee:
<https://github.com/bx-blee/env2> -- Very messy work-in-progress git repo for:
Blee: By* Libre-Halaal Emacs Environment
- <http://www.by-star.net> -- A Moral Alterantive To The Proprietary American Digital Ecosystem
+ <http://www.by-star.net> -- A Moral Alternative To The Proprietary American Digital Ecosystem
<http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/PLPC/120033> --
Nature of Polyexistentials:
Basis for Abolishment of The Western Intellectual Property Rights Regime
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ References:
<http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/persian> -- Farsi
<http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/french> -- French
-
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[[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/bidi-nav)" raw="yes"]]