gedit-bidiassist

BidiAssist (short for Bidirectional Assistant) is a Gedit plugin helping users with their bidirectional (plain) texts

Features

Here are current features:

• Paragraph Direction

  • Left to Right Sets the direction of selected paragraphs explicitly to left-to-right
  • Right to Left Sets the direction of selected paragraphs explicitly to right-to-left
  • Clear Removes the explicit direction of selected paragraphs

• Embed Text

  • Left to Right Marks selected text as embedded left-to-right
  • Right to Left Marks selected text as embedded right-to-left

• Override Text

  • Left to Right Enforces the direction of selected text to left-to-right
  • Right to Left Enforces the direction of selected text to right-to-left

• Clear Bidirectional Characters Removes any bidirectional character from the selected text

How to Install

You should copy the plugin files (from appropriate bziped tarball) to ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/ or /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/.

The latest version is v0.93 and should work with Gedit <= 2.10:

• GTK-2.0: http://zwnj.org/proj/gedit/bidiassist/bidiassist-0.93.plugin.gtk-2.0.tar.bz2
• GTK-2.6: http://zwnj.org/proj/gedit/bidiassist/bidiassist-0.93.plugin.gtk-2.6.tar.bz2

See Also

• Source Code: https://github.com/behnam/gedit-bidiassist

• GNOME

  • Bug 353805 – GTK+ – Support for keyboard layouts: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353805
  • Bug 353812 – GTK+ – API for Changing Paragraph Direction: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353812
  • Bug 353814 – GTK+ – Adding Bidi features to Context menu: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353814
  • Bug 312006 – Gedit – Adding Bidi features: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312006

• FreeDesktop

  • Specification: bidi-spec: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/bidi-spec
  • Mailing List: bidi at lists.freedesktop.org: http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/bidi/