Re: help with mlterm
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:18:19PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get mlterm to work in the way I want for a mixed Hebrew
> and English environment.
>
> These are the things that annoy me in no particular order:
>
> - Is it possible to completely disable bold fonts like in
> gnome-terminal? I am using anti aliased fonts and have fiddled
> endlessly with settings in ~/.mlterm/aafonts, but without success.
Err... why would you want to disable it?
>
> - I would prefer to use SBL Hebrew as my font and put mlterm in variable
> width mode, but the vowel pointings seem to be shifted to the left.
Variable width fonts in the terminal? Doesn't sound promising.
>
> - A line starts in right or left mode based on the first
"strong" (e.g.: one with a clear directionality)
> character. Is
> there anyway to control this? My application should always work left
> to right and just insert Hebrew in right to left mode, but sometimes
> the lines start with Hebrew.
What applications do you use?
I suppose it would not be difficult to add it as an extra control. I'm
just not sure how actually usable it will be.
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