NOW and LATER are considered Strong character (While DONE isn't)

[glicksman]

See screenshot for illustration.

• When using the default labels NOW/LATER, it reverts the block to LTR.
• When using the label DONE, it stays RTL.

Ideally, the plugin disregards NOW/LATER when it parses them and doesn't count them as the first strong character.

[ahangarha]

Done is not strong because it doesn't get rendered, so the first strong character of your block becomes your text.

We should find a way to make these keywords neutral.

By the way, what extension do you use to have RTL/LTR in your doc? Is it logseq-bidi?

[glicksman]

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We should find a way to make these keywords neutral.

Since NOW and LATER are reserved keywords if they appear at the start of the block, can you create a small patch to skip them, when searching for the first Strong Character? Ideally, this will be configurable, so each user can adjust these according to their own workflow.

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By the way, what extension do you use to have RTL/LTR in your doc? Is it logseq-bidi?

Yes, I'm using logseq-bidi version 0.3.0

[ahangarha]

These keywords are the most annoying thing in Logseq.
While I look for a solution, please let me know if you have any suggestions.

[glicksman]

Hi @ahangarha, any thoughts about this?

One suggestion could be to implement a patch that skips the specific words DONE or TODO, when deciding text direction.
This way, if the text immediately after is Arabic/Hebrew, then it goes RTL. Otherwise, it will be LTR.

[ahangarha]

I can think of such solutions but I am worried that we don't stop it there.

If you can open a PR, I am open to it. I might work on it sometimes in the near future too. But I cannot promise.

[ahangarha]

I have worked on this issue for a while and has made some "good" progress. There is a few edge cases that I am working on. Because I am going to change some of the internal functionalities, I am worried that the plugin behaves differently in some certain cases.

To ensure we don't have issues with official update, I would need some volunteers to manually replace the official release with the one I provide and check the result. Let me know if you are open for testing it.