On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Anthony Fok wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> For about a month, AbiWord has exhibit this weird behaviour: when typing a
> paragraph, the whole paragraph would move back and forth for each new
> character I type. I don't know how to explain it properly, so I made an
> animated GIF here:
>
> http://www.thizlinux.com/~anthony/abiword-weird-text-positioning.gif
>
> Goofy eh? :-) Note that even though I was typing Chinese text at the end
> of the paragraph, if I were to type English text, the same "moving
> back-and-forth" behaviour would occur. The screenshot was produced with
> AbiWord 0.99.2 with CVS updates as of 2002-03-01.
>
> Older versions didn't have this problem. I can't exactly remember when this
> start happening. Probably between 0.9.6.1 and 0.99.1? :-) Any ideas?
>
> Many thanks,
Hi Anthony,
Thanks very much for neat animated GIF showing the problem. It
appears that linebreaker method has a bug in doing text layout. I hope
that Tomas Frydrich can have a look and see if it can be fixed. It may
just show up in your Chinese locale though. I don't recall seeing this bug
in English AbiWord.
Cheers
Martin
