Subject: Re: rendering
From: Kevin Vajk (kvajk@ricochet.net)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 10:20:45 CST
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> > Wait a minute. Is "line-breaking" *also* a renderer issue?
> In principle yes, since the characters on which it is permissible to
> break a line may vary from language to language, and you may
> need to query the rendering engine about these characters.
In some languages (thai), you don't put spaces between words.
(Thai typically has spaces between sentences, though.) My
understanding is that word processors call something which uses
a dictionary to parse the line into its individual words, so
that the line is broken on a word boundary. Would this logic
be in the renderer, too?
- Kevin Vajk
<kvajk@ricochet.net>
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