FriBidi's rendering pipeline (was Re: [FriBidi] what encoding? where are the docs?)

[Beni Cherniavsky]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 03:51 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> 
> Yes, in fact I figured out the whole pipeline by looking at the
> fribidi_log2vis implementation in lib/fribidi.c.  But do not
> forget the problem with fribidi_log2vis, it only works for
> paragraphs rendered into one line.  No line breaking step.  So we
> really want to let fribidi_log2vis fade away.  I'm fine defining
> two convenience functions instead, one for before line-breaking,
> one for after.
> 
+1.  Line breaking is the one place where every sane program does
something, so 2 convenience functions (before and after) are even more
useful the single log2vis.