From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 23:04:50 EDT
--- Mike Nordell <tamlin@algonet.se> wrote: > Paul
Rohr wrote:
> > OK, so this suggests that the local equivalent of
> the church secretary
> > (gosh, what an American concept that is)
>
> Probably. I've actually never heard about them in
> any other context than AW.
> Perhaps the "original designers" were overely
> religious? :-)
> (I have nothing against religions, unless it's the
> brainwashing kind)
>
> I however agree that a selection/removal, whether by
> backapce, mouse
> selction or shift-left should select/remove the same
> data.
Well now that it seems everybody is in favour of
selecting halves/thirds/etc of ligature glyphs and
characters with multiple accents, lets move on to how
we display partially-selected glyphs. And how we
decide which parts of the glyph to select based on
mouse movement. Doing incremental keyboard selection
should be easy but we don't currently support it:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1441
Andrew Dunbar.
> /Mike
>
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