Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: [cairo] Pango + cairo

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Peter Moulder wrote:

[snip]
> An alternative is to let gaps divide the line into multiple logical
> "lines" that happen to be placed next to each other (sharing a
> baseline).  This does raise the question of which sub-line should get
> the first word of the full line; so bidi may affect us somewhat even
> with this alternative.

This is simply wrong w.r.t bidi text.  See slides 4 to 7 here for
example:

http://behdad.org/download/Presentations/bidi-layouts/

> pjrm.

--behdad
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