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Re: [Freetype] Confusion about bidirectional line breaks...
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Freetype] Confusion about bidirectional line breaks... |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Oct 2004 07:35:45 +0200 (CEST) |
> Using the normal convention of upper case being right-to-left:
>
> Logical: "He said: I SAW THE CAT"
> Visual: "He said: TAC EHT WAS I"
>
> Broken in logical order:
>
> He said: WAS I
> TAC EHT
>
> Broken in visual order (incorrect):
>
> He said: TAC EHT
> WAS I
>
> When reading a bidirectional text in Arabic or Hebrew, you never
> go up to a previous line ... lines are always in logical order.
Thanks, now I got it. Have you any information w.r.t. hyphenation in
the first line of the RTL text? Something like
He said: I UNDERSTAND THE CAT
-> He said: -REDNU I
TAC EHT DNATS
In more complicated situations it seems to be an interative process to
get a decent spacing...
Werner