Re: commit (HEAD): bidi work

From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas_at_frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Fri Apr 23 2004 - 17:42:29 EDT

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    Hi Dom,

    > However, having the ability to turn off BiDi
    > altogether seems like an unambiguously bad idea.
    > Please explain why Average Joe User will want this
    > capability and how it will benefit his AbiWord
    > experience.
    >

    It is not intended for the average user, nor I have any desire for us
    to build and distribute AW wihout bidi; this is something that was
    requested by guys who are going to use AW as the wordprocessor for a
    particular embeded device where space and processing power is a
    premium and bidi support is not required. I thought it better to add
    a handful of preprocessing directives myself then to have the guys to
    have to hack at this in their own tree. In anycase, I am going to
    make sure that the users are aware that the embeded version of AW is
    only a slimmed down version.

    As far as the particular embeded project is concerned I will let you
    know more when I have a clearer picture myself.

    Tomas



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