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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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 00:24:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Hebrew Date: 8 Apr 2001 06:52:37 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9ap1rl$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e531b.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.0 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6638 Date: 2001-04-08T06:52:37+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:33:29 -0700, Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. wrote: > 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. However as a > practical matter, the use of web technology to display Hebrew can be as > above or as the Israelis are doing it. What type of functionality? Right-to-left? It doesn't seem like that big a deal - wide_text_io could handle it right now, right? Personally, I'd find normalization functions to be more useful; rtl only matters when dumping to a terminal without higher-order protocols (curses should handle it for you, if and when anyone does serious work on UTF-8 compatibility), whereas normalization comes in handy when ever you run into Unicode text from the outside. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg