[Fribidi-discuss] Bug in wrapping in command-line fribidi?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi Beni,

Fribidi's command line tool is just a simple test tool.  I must 
confess that I never expected anyone discover my laziness in 
breaking lines before reordering!  The fact is that the fribidi 
api currently does not support line breaking in the right place, 
so I break lines after reordering, while Nadav breaks lines 
before the whole bidi algorithm, which means override marks (LRO, 
RLO, ...) will work on lines, not paragraphs.  The whole thing 
will be fixed in the upcoming fribidi release.

Yours,
behdad




On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about "[Fribidi-discuss] Bug in wrapping in command-line fribidi?":
> > The --ltr / --rtl are needed to force the base direction of the whole
> > paragraph to be the same, otherwise different parts of the same line
> > would be auto-detected with different directions.
> > 
> > A quick look at the source seems to confirm that wrapping is done on
> > the visual result.  The fix would be a bit involved.  In particular,
> 
> The "bidiv" utility I wrote (which is basically a small C utility using
> the fribidi library) does both of the things you wanted: it correctly
> folds lines, and it determines the main direction by paragraph (but you
> also have an option to do it by logical line). It also has a few other
> features that you might like when viewing Hebrew (or Hebrew/English)
> text, like right justification and automatic ISO-8859-8 / UTF-8 recognition.
> 
> You can find bidiv in:
> http://ftp.ivrix.org.il/pub/ivrix/src/cmdline/
> 
> 

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