From 2b47dac39b443210eb0d34ac31257f19c4ab1a64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 12:46:03 -0500 Subject: Add pad stuff --- 2021/talks/bidi.md | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) (limited to '2021/talks/bidi.md') diff --git a/2021/talks/bidi.md b/2021/talks/bidi.md index 6038cf48..8044af56 100644 --- a/2021/talks/bidi.md +++ b/2021/talks/bidi.md @@ -127,6 +127,36 @@ of bidi on existing emacs applications, including: # Discussion +Pad: + +- Q1: is there any additions that you have to add to emacs for using + non-English/latin characters or does it work mostly out of the box?  + - A: \[Prot\] :  I only set the default-input-method to \"greek\". + Then switch to it with C-\\ (toggle-input-method) +- Q2: One stuggle I have with this input method option is, why not use + an IME that\'s installed on the host OS? + - A:I live inside Emacs, and that the host OS typically provides + an unintelligent keyboard, and Farsi and transliterate BANAN + provides multi-character input, which is a lot more powerful. +- Q3:Do you write any lisp or other code/markup with these scripts? + (Sorry if I missed you mentioning this.) + - A:No, everything is in pure Elisp. +- Q4: What alternatives have you looked into for solving the problem + related to your markup language idea? What isn\'t achieved by them? + - A:The way that Emacs has evovled about properties about string + and text. And I suggest we adopt the \"web\" model for Emacs + application development. If you step back and look at where we + are, there\'s no such thing as no \'emacs native markup language + mode\' similar to HTML for web.  Emacs\'s display engine is + capable of doing everything, but we\'re not exposing \.... + (sorry, missed this part) + - Makes sense to me, thanks! +- Q5: bandali: genenrally curious about the state of writing/reading + Persian in the TTY +- Q6:Does your input method also solves problems with exporting + doctuments ? usually when  you exporting a Persian-Enlight doc it + redirects the Persian scripts to LTR + Questions/comments: - Thanks for giving such a nice presentation of the Emacs input method framework! I'm just curious about if you've made any plans for setting up your markup language? I know you said you hadn't written any code for it yet. -- cgit v1.2.3