This is how I do it in practice. Open office knows which fonts or parts of fonts is “rtl” versus “ltr”. So if I want to insert Hebrew in the middle of an English document, I insert special (Hebrew) characters from the David font into the document. However, I never tried this over a line break, but I assume it will work reasonably well by making blocks of the two directions and keeping them together.
Howard Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________ From: Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreute...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 8:27:09 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Technical question regarding line wrapping with bidirectional text Hello everyone, I'm looking for an answer to a dilemma I have about text layouting and I was wondering if I might get some thoughts about how that's done in OO Write. In short, the Unicode Bidi Algorithm requires that reordering of mixed RTL/LTR text runs be done after line breaking. But the line wrapping algorithm needs to know which text runs go first/last on each line in order to compute the line width, because there might be diff. amount of whitespace between runs, so depending on the order of the runs within the line, the line will have a diff. width. Looks like a chicken-egg problem and I can't figure it out. Why is this not a problem in any bidi-enabled text editor? How is that solved in practice? Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
