Re: Implement BIDI algorithm by line

Huh? What context is this in?

On 8/22/2011 11:18 AM, CE Whitehead wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I think many line breaks within paragraphs are soft line breaks but
> that embedding levels have to be taken into account when deciding the
> width of the glyphs; that's as near as I can tell.
>
> Here is the description of the algorithm -- is this what you have read?
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/
> Some rules are in fact applied after the line wrapping (after the soft
> breaks) --
> "The following rules describe the logical process of finding the
> correct display order. As opposed to resolution phases, these rules
> act on a per-line basis/and are applied *after* any line wrapping is
> applied to the paragraph./
> Logically there are the following steps:
>
> * The levels of the text are determined according to the previous rules.
> * The characters are shaped into glyphs according to their context
> /(taking the embedding levels into account for mirroring)./
> * The accumulated widths of those glyphs /(in logical order)/ are
> used to determine line breaks.
> * For each line, rules L1 <http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#L1>–L4
> <http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#L4> are used to reorder the
> characters on that line."
>
>
>
> (I'd have to reread the whole document on line breaking then on bidi
> to answer this truely; sorry; hope this helps anyway)
> --C. E. Whitehead
> cewcathar_at_hotmail.com
Received on Mon Aug 22 2011 - 13:47:02 CDT