Sorry, Asmus, what do you mean? On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Asmus Freytag <[email protected]> wrote:
> Huh? What context is this in? > > > On 8/22/2011 11:18 AM, CE Whitehead wrote: > > Hi. > > I think many line breaks within paragraphs are soft line breaks but that > embedding levels have to be taken into account when deciding the width of > the glyphs; that's as near as I can tell. > > Here is the description of the algorithm -- is this what you have read? > http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/ > Some rules are in fact applied after the line wrapping (after the soft > breaks) -- > "The following rules describe the logical process of finding the correct > display order. As opposed to resolution phases, these rules act on a > per-line basis* and are applied after any line wrapping is applied to the > paragraph.* > Logically there are the following steps: > > - The levels of the text are determined according to the previous > rules. > - The characters are shaped into glyphs according to their context *(taking > the embedding levels into account for mirroring).* > - The accumulated widths of those glyphs *(in logical order)* are used > to determine line breaks. > - For each line, rules L1 > <http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#L1>–L4<http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#L4>are > used to reorder the characters on that line." > > > > (I'd have to reread the whole document on line breaking then on bidi to > answer this truely; sorry; hope this helps anyway) > --C. E. Whitehead > [email protected] > > >
