Kaixo! On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:16:46PM -0000, dleach qnx com wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am finally back at the RTL thing after an eight month hiatus. > Anyhow, you can understand I am rather rusty. > > Concerning rendering text. Suppose one was drawing a page of RTL text, and > the text area to render into was a large "L" shape on the target > device. Now, would one expect this to be two text areas, one for > the vertical length of the "L", and one for the horizontal length > of the "L", or would one expect it to be one large "L" shape target > text area? Can Pango represent the "L" shape somehow, definately > not a rectangle! How is a large "L" in RTL different of a an "horizontally flipped L" in LTR? (and that is quite common in LTR layouts, think about lettrines for example, so it should have been dealt with already) -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.walon.org/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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