From 84412f2cbb7f282c15857493602b80f60e562051 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:30:59 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Better indexing of "base direction" of paragraphs in the user
manual.
doc/emacs/mule.texi (Bidirectional Editing): Improve indexing. Minor
wording tweaks.
---
doc/emacs/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
doc/emacs/mule.texi | 12 +++++++-----
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 18428c0ba48..deb10e0e488 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-04-25 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * mule.texi (Bidirectional Editing): Improve indexing. Minor
+ wording tweaks.
+
2012-04-15 Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
* misc.texi (emacsclient Options): More clarifications.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/mule.texi b/doc/emacs/mule.texi
index 5f0e138deef..9c1d908f882 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/mule.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/mule.texi
@@ -1763,15 +1763,17 @@ non-@code{nil}, Emacs reorders characters that have right-to-left
directionality when they are displayed. The default value is
@code{t}.
+@cindex base direction of paragraphs
+@cindex paragraph, base direction
Each paragraph of bidirectional text can have its own @dfn{base
direction}, either right-to-left or left-to-right. (Paragraph
@c paragraph-separate etc have no influence on this?
boundaries are empty lines, i.e.@: lines consisting entirely of
-whitespace characters.) Text in left-to-right paragraphs begins at
-the left margin of the window and is truncated or continued when it
-reaches the right margin. By contrast, text in right-to-left
-paragraphs begins at the right margin and is continued or truncated at
-the left margin.
+whitespace characters.) Text in left-to-right paragraphs begins on
+the screen at the left margin of the window and is truncated or
+continued when it reaches the right margin. By contrast, text in
+right-to-left paragraphs is displayed starting at the right margin and
+is continued or truncated at the left margin.
@vindex bidi-paragraph-direction
Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph dynamically,
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