From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,437e9fdc6e4f0fdd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-08 03:16:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!isdnet!newscore.gigabell.net!newsfeed.germany.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!easynews.net!news.cid.net!news.enyo.de!news1.enyo.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Hebrew Date: 08 Apr 2001 12:18:22 +0200 Organization: Enyo's not your organization Message-ID: <87zodry9sh.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6640 Date: 2001-04-08T12:18:22+02:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." writes: > horiz-adv-x = "" > The horizontal advance after rendering a glyph in horizontal orientation. > The default value is the value of the font's horizAdvX attribute. Glyph > widths are required to be positive, even if the glyph is typically rendered > right-to-left, as in Hebrew and Arabic scripts. > I would like to see this type of functionality in Ada. Why? This seems to have an application only in the highly specialized field of GUI, doesn't it?