Re: Bidi reordering engine upgraded

[grischka]

martin rudalics wrote:
>  > This is because to the human eye pixels are similar to points in math
>  > (i.e.has location, does not have extent).  Therefor, a mental 
> "magnifying
>  > glass" (in order to be useful) needs to preserve the point-like property
>  > of pixels unaffected from the "zoom factor".
>  >
>  > Which means that what counts for line length is not number of pixels
>  > but the spaces between.  See line of length 10, magnified:
>  >
>  >      0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   0
>  >      *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
>
> I doubt my eye (and whatever there's left behind it) would consider
>
>   0
>   *
>
> having zero extent.

Nobody would consider a single pixel to mean anything in particular.
For that to happen it needs to be placed in relation to other pixels.

For example two pixels can make a line already.

--- grischka

> martin