Uri Bruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/09/02 23:11]: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > > > Matitiahu Allouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/09/02 13:29]: > > > The main problem in a Bidi word processor is not how to transform logical > > > to visual format. As Tzafrir Cohen mentioned, there are a number of > > > libraries available for this purpose, which all generally produce the same > > > results, the exceptions being for rather off-beat cases. > > > > > > The main problem is with the *interface*, mainly what should Delete, > > > Backspace etc... perform, where the caret (or text cursor) should go after > > > given operations, how to handle selection, to name a few important issues. > > > > > Well, if you have the additional information that your character is a > > r2l character (even if it is a space or parentheses), this can help you > > decide what to do. I actually saw how both Backspace and selection work > > in QText, and it seems to work great. > > Neither of them made sense to me. Furthermore, Qtext conforms to the > Win3.1 language switching convention, right-alt-shift always switches to Hebrew > while left-alt-shift always switches to English, while Win9x uses both > alt-shift simply as switch language, which means that the language shown > on the toolbar is not necessarily the language Qtext writes in.
QText does not use windows to handle bidi, but handles it internally. That's what makes it work. I think that being non windows compatible is a small price to pay for a working bidi support. > -- > Thanks, > Uri > http://translation.israel.net Moshe > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
