Right to Left Text Entry

[ghost]

I need to mix normal Left to Right English with a couple of Right to Left languages. I know that nvALT has no problem with the individual characters when I change my unicode keyboard, but the Right to Left setting is a problem and I can't find a setting to change. How can I shift from Right to Left (the default when I'm using Hebrew) to left to right in the same paragraph?

[ttscoff]

Given that nvALT is primarily focused on Markdown, making that happen would be futile as it has no effect on plain text.

It sounds like you need a more advanced word processing tool than nvALT is every planning to be.

On 15 Mar 2014, at 16:06, ccozier wrote:

I need to mix normal Left to Right English with a couple of Right to Left languages. I know that nvALT has no problem with the individual characters when I change my unicode keyboard, but the Right to Left setting is a problem and I can't find a setting to change. How can I shift from Right to Left (the default when I'm using Hebrew) to left to right in the same paragraph?

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/264

[ghost]

I'm an academic (Biblical Studies) with lots of mixing of Hebrew, Greek and of our course Latin scripts. I would love to find a plain text solution for notes. Given that unicode can give me the characters I need, I'm hoping to find a way to force left to right orientation when working with Hebrew. I assumed (incorrectly?) that orientation could be controlled.

[ttscoff]

nvALT can only set the text direction for the entire text field, not on a per-paragraph basis. It would be easy to accomplish with a bit of extra markup...

If you just put a div with a class around RTL paragraphs, you can style it in any preview with CSS.

  <div markdown="1" class="rtl">
  All your _Markdown_ should be rendered because of the 

"markdown=1".