Hello everyone,
I don't know if this message is in the right place in this part of the forum. If I'm wrong, please excuse me, I'm new to this forum...
First of all, thanks to the developers of Zettlr! I've been using it under Linux for a few months now, after trying other Mardkdown softwares and other dedicated Zettlekasten softwares. At first I just used it as a Markdown editor, but now I'm discovering all the possibilities it has to offer.
However, I'm missing one feature announced in the Preferences, and I'd like to know if it's still planned and when: the ability to write from right to left. Ideally, I'd like to be able to switch from one direction to the other within the same file! This would make it easier for me to include excerpts from the Hebrew Bible in my documents, which I currently prepare in another program and then copy and paste.
Another great improvement would be to be able to choose the font used depending on the languages I am using, French or English and Hebrew.
Thanks for your feedback!

Hi,

first of all: welcome to the community!

Then to your question: In theory, the editor should already support bidirectional writing, but since I do not speak/write any left-to-right language, I often have to defer to experts in those languages in helping me figure this out. What exactly are the issues you are experiencing? I also appreciate screenshots to demonstrate the problems you are facing!

Thank you for your reply. I can indeed change the keyboard layout (Azerty) and switch from the classic layout for French and English to the layout for Hebrew with Tyndale Keyboard and Unicode Font Kits as this is independent of Zettlr. But cursor movement is then not correct:

  • in French and English layouts, the cursor moves from left to right and is always to the right of the last letter,
  • in Hebrew layouts, the cursor remains totally locked to the left and letters move out of it, each new letter pushing the previous one to the right, so the movement doesn't go from right to left and it's unmanageable.

By comparison, in LibreOffice, there's a menu for changing the writing direction. So when I switch to Hebrew mode, the cursor moves from right to left and is always to the left of the last letter.

On the other hand, it would be useful to be able to change the font to use a more suitable font than the Hebrew characters included in the default font. Perhaps this is possible in css, but I can't see what Markdown-compatible tag you'd need to use to call up fonts and thus change fonts in the same document.
If you can think of any solutions, I'd be happy to try them out!