Re: about P1 part of BIDI alogrithm

On 2011/10/11 13:07, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:53:39 +0900
>> From: "Martin J. Dürst"<duerst_at_it.aoyama.ac.jp>
>> CC: li bo<libo.imc_at_gmail.com>, unicode_at_unicode.org
>>
>> This is different from what you did in Emacs, which I'd call
>> line-folding, i.e. cut the line after a paragraph is laid out and
>> reordered completely as a single (potentially very long) line. This
>> makes some sense in Emacs, where the basic assumption is that lines
>> should fit into the width of the view.
>
> Sorry, I don't follow you. There's no such "line-folding" in the
> Emacs implementation of the UBA. A line that doesn't fit the window
> width is reordered as a whole. Conceptually, reordering is done
> before breaking a long line into continuation lines.

This is exactly what I meant. In Emacs, reordering is done before
breaking a long line into smaller segments to fit into the width of the
display window. I called this "line-folding", you call it continuation
lines.

But in the bidi algorithm itself, line breaking (be it automatic due to
a layout algorithm or explicit due to LS or something similar) is
applied *before* reordering. This is very important, because otherwise,
content that is logically earlier may appear on later lines, which would
be very confusing for readers.

Regards, Martin.
Received on Mon Oct 10 2011 - 23:44:46 CDT