I don't think anyone is actively working on this. I'd not take the current CTMs too seriously. I think they are only there to indicate the possibility of supporting different writing mode at some point. If you change the CTM stuff some of the test cases demonstrating the writing mode capabilities will probably fail. But since they are probably not really testing the right stuff, that shouldn't be a problem.
We've had a number of discussion already about implementing different writing modes, BIDI, UAX#14 and whatever terms are involved. I don't know how much research you've done on the mailing list archives already. But I think it would be good if you took a look at those discussions. At any rate, I think we'd be curious about the approach you've taken. Maybe you could tell us a little more. Anyway, I'm quite happy to hear someone wants to jump in here. On 04.08.2006 16:31:24 Sebastian Weber wrote: > If I set the writing-mode to rl-tb my text is flipped vertical. This happens > because the CTM class rotates the transformation matrix for rendering > according to the writing mode. If I want to write right-to-left this has > nothing to do with mirroring of cause and I disabled it, because I want to > print arabic text. So what is the purpose of mirroring in rl-tb > writing-mode? What errors will appear if I disable the CTM.getWMctm() > function that does the mirroring according to the writing-mode? > I achived printing (pdf) arabic text after some weeks of work ignoring any > xsl:fo recommendations. The most things I did in the TextLayoutManager. Now > I'm thinking about implementing it according to the recommendations and the > BIDI algorithm. Is anyone already engaged in this? > > Regards, Sebastian Jeremias Maerki
