Hi! In my blog post (http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/bertodsera/iliad-localization-package ), I had stated that top-bottom layouts were a “hope for the future”. I was wrong. The future is now, as I found out today. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531187(VS.85).aspx
Note that only Latin chars will appear as 90 degs rotated, Oriental scripts that make a normal use of this layout do appear as vertical. I provided to correct the post and to add the reference. This is good news, because it means that 98% of the users are immediately able to use this feature (with only us heretics funnily barred out from things that are supposed to be “socially responsible, i.e., our bag). I'm aware that most western coders won't currently use it, because it will fail on non-IE browsers, yet my take is that the power of the Eastern markets will drive anyone to adopt it pretty soon. Anyway, this means two things: 1.there is already a widespread industry standard for this issue that almost anyone can use 2.it gets important that we can manage it, as AFAIK no other framework can As a first reaction I will turn the #asString message into an #asMsWritingMode message. I did not really like to call it #asString because it doesn't do what a usual #asString does. This MS thing provides me with a readable solution that returns a well readable standard, one that can be widely used in HTML tagging. I will also re-factor TextLayout, to make it properly map all of the 8 existing layouts. Now to the question raised by Stefan about a possible #render: someText on: aWidget message. As long as I wasn't aware of this MS solution I would have quoted an old song and answered “take me into shallow waters, before I get too deep...” . It really looked like we were trying to use a non-existing thing, based on our imagination only. Now things have changed, because we DO have a tool and can verify the results (even if this sadly means I have to reinstall Windows on some box). I'm still trying to digest the news, so I won't immediately venture into details. I'd just like to ask Stefan if he could clarify what this message was expected to do. -- ============================== Constitution du 24 juin 1793 - Article 35. - Quand le gouvernement viole les droits du peuple, l'insurrection est, pour le peuple et pour chaque portion du peuple, le plus sacré des droits et le plus indispensable des devoirs. _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
