On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 08:20, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: > Rodolfo M. Raya wrote: > > > Does anybody have a routine to reorder BIDI text? > You can use java.text.Bidi from jdk1.4 and sun.awt.font.Bidi in jdk1.2/1.3, > they provide basic BIDI facilities. The problem is that java.text.Bidi is > since jdk1.4 and sun.awt.font.Bidi does not exist in jdk1.4. So I suggest you > not to use BIDI implementation directly, but indirectly through > java.awt.font.TextLayout and so on.
I can't use Sun's Bidi class directly because some users will be running jdk 1.3. I'll try with java.awt.font.TextLayout. > > I'm writing code to visually reorder BIDI text before generating XSL-FO > > files, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. > btw, that's not the solution actually. This way you do provide visually > reordered text to FOP, but FOP as being BIDI-unaware will still layout text > ltr-tb, so you'll end with rtl-bt layout: > > logical: RAC A SI SIHT > visual: THIS IS A CAR > One line is ok, but once line break occurs: > IS A CAR > THIS > > The solution is to make FOP BIDI-aware itself. I have experimented with it > and > actually I have BIDI-aware version of FOP 0.20.5rc or earlier, but the > implementation is neither fast nor clean from design point of view, so I > decided not to commit it to cvs, but instead to implement it in FOP1.0dev in > a > better way. You are welcome to help us with this. Lack of free time, > unfortunately, you know, too many day works last time :(((( Can you send me the code? I can try to clean it. My deadline is March 7th, so I have 2 days to play with it. Thanks and regards, Rodolfo -- Rodolfo M. Raya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Heartsome Holdings Pte. Ltd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
