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Re: 'r2l' continuation

guy keren
Thu, 05 Jul 2001 16:35:19 -0700

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, mulix wrote:

> library is ready, for some values of 'ready'. it compiles, and the
> interface is useable. three quarters of the code are based on my r2l
> code, so i'm pretty sure they work, the rest is new code to support
> tzafrir's biditext_base property.
>
> i decided that as long as we use files, we might as well make full use
> of them. therefore, i store in the file the 'biditext bidi' property in
> plain text, as the tokens 'neutral', 'rtl' and 'ltr'.

oh! but thus you have defeated tzafrir's original purpose of using the
file size - so the data can be taken with a single fstat() call, rather by
using fstat(), open(), read() and close(). remmeber this code will be
invoked on each XDrawString* function call inside biditext.so ...

i suggest you switch back to reading file sizes.

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guy

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