Dov Feldstern wrote:
> I'll try to look at it at some point. Note, however, that in Hebrew (and
> also in Arabic, I believe), the compose characters are only used for
> "points" ("nikud" in Hebrew), which are the equivalent of vowels, and
> are expressed by dots or lines printed above, below, or inside the
> letters.
I see. Do you have any idea for what purpose isComposeChar_arabic and
isComposeChar_hebrew are used in LyX currently? Maybe some incomplete nikud
support?
> (That's why they have to break the grouping --- they should
> really be placed at the same position as the letter with which they
> appear.) However, nikud is usually omitted, so this is not a
> high-priority feature (although it certainly would be nice to have). In
> fact, I have never seen a version of LyX which fully supported nikud ---
> the backend chokes on it, too. So this is not really a regression
> relative to older versions, but a new feature. I'll open a new feature
> request for this in bugzilla.
Good. IMHO this is for post 1.5.0, since we have to do a lot already.
Georg
