Subject: Re: Bidirectional support
From: Chih-Wei Huang (cwhuang@linux.org.tw)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 19:39:12 CST
Tomas Frydrych ¼g¹D¡G
>
> First of all, however, I was wandering whether the BiDi support
> should be build into the standard build, or whether it should be
> plugged in through conditional compilation. I think in the short term
> the latter is the better option allowing the work to be done without
> impact on the rest of the development. In long term I do not know;
> lot of AbiWord users, if not majority, probably will not need this,
> and it does impact the drawing performance at least a bit. What do
> you guys think?
I don't know how many people need BiDi support.
For CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), we may or may not need.
However, we DO need vertical text support.
(i.e., from top to bottom and then right to left)
Can you consider a generic framework
that can make AW support both BiDi and vertical
(and other possibilities) typesetting?
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