Re: Qtext

  Uri Bruck <bruck-uf+uqdaZT6qTt3WsUyM9gg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [27/09/02 23:11]:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote:
> 
> >   Matitiahu Allouche <matial-7z/5BgaJwgfQT0dZR+AlfA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > [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

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