<div dir="ltr"><div><div>[re-sending bc idk why the indents went away]<br></div><div><br>@ martin<br><div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="margin-left:40px">I don't see how the final space needs to be in its own run here. It's
part of a single direction RTL run and can stay part of it. There is no
need to rerun any bidi at this stage of the proceedings. Having said
that, space generally needs special handling at the end of a line (in
effect, cut it out, it isn't part of the line being broken or part of
the following line either). This is true whether you had bidi going on
or not. And there are lots of spaces in Unicode, as I'm sure you are
aware.<br></div></blockquote><br></div>I always kept the space in the glyph list
because I use it to generate cursor positions, and you need the space to
make the last cursor position<br><br></div><blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Yes. Notice that you only had to reshape twice per line. In the bad case
that inserting a hyphen made the shaping result longer than a line,
then you would need to back up and try again, which is in effect, the
cost of another line. The costly bit is if you have a long paragraph,
the reshaping of the 'rest of the paragraph' for each line is costly. </blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin-left:40px"><br></div><div><br></div><div>yeah,
that's what the problem with this system is, in terms of that article
Alexander sent, it’s O(1/2 * n^2). It’d be fine if I could reuse the
shaped glyphs, but without safe-to-break you don't know when how far out
you have to recalculate.<br></div><div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">I
would suggest that you don't need to reshape if the start of the next
line is in a different cluster to the end of the previous line. There
are cases where you may need to do some positional tidying (deciding
where the new 0 >is in the line), but you can't ligate across a cluster
boundary (by definition in OT). Equally, you should be able to save
reshaping for the end of a line if there is no text added and you break
on a cluster boundary. These are >important optimisations (which I will
probably get yelled at for suggesting, but it would be interesting to
hear the use cases where my presuppositions fall down), because you
really don't want to have to reshape a long paragraph n times,
especially when most of the time you will break at a space.<br></blockquote><br></div>I
don’t think this works because of contextual substitution. Which is
very, very common in cursive fonts. If you separate a cursive pair, you
have to change both glyphs to their separate forms. I’ve also created
“ordinary” <a href="https://github.com/kelvin13/noctilucenta" target="_blank">text serif fonts</a>
(like Noctilucenta) which use chained contextual substitutions that
make it so a glyph’s form can be controlled by the presence of a
character hundreds of indices before it. (This is done to provide access
to certain glyph sets like old style numerals or small caps). That’s
why i'm kind of up your case about safe-to-break, because that would
allow us to detect a crazy font like that and avoid having to reshape
out that far if it’s not needed.<br><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="margin-left:40px">Of course this all presumes you have a supporting engine that tells you
line break opportunities for all the languages of the world, including
hyphenation dictionaries. ICU may be sufficient for your needs, but I do
encourage you, and everyone, to allow the addition of extra languages
to your application beyond those you compile for.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right
now it doesn’t precalculate line break opportunities, it just checks to
see if it didn’t overrun on a whitespace character, and if so it’s
extracts that one word and runs it through the hyphenation dictionary.
Probably won’t work for languages that don’t hyphenate words (or
languages with no spaces) but it avoids having to run *every* word in
the paragraph through the hyphenation engine which can take a while. <br><br>Opening
it up to every language would probably be as simple as creating a way
for a foreign breakpoint engine to access the original text string and
supplying the cluster index of the glyph that overran the line limit.
And probably a path backwards for it to return a separator character,
like a hyphen (<span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">'-'</span>).<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="margin-left:40px">I notice you say you want a very clear, to the user, line breaking
algorithm and so are going purely line by line, earliest break first. I
would suggest that for greatest clarity that you not do hyphenation. All
systems try to avoid hyphenation unless they have to (can't find a
break within a certain distance of the end of line), otherwise you may
find you are hyphenating every line. I would give the user the option of
turning hyphenation on and off and giving a hyphenation zone (or
maximum raggedness). This doesn't impinge on your single line breaking
algorithm, it just tries to reduce the likelihood of hyphens turning up.
And, as you have shown, hyphenation is costly in terms of reshaping.<br></div></blockquote><br></div>Hyphenation
is a styling attribute in Knockout. It’s off by default and can be
activated on a classed or paragraph-by-paragraph basis. But I’ve found
it’s fine to turn it on for every paragraph because hyphenation only
occurs when it's possible to hyphenate (the part of the word before the
line limit is long enough to contain a hyphenation point), and when
hyphenation is not needed, it’s generally impossible anyway. The only
issue I ever had was sometimes the hyphenator would get confused and
hyphenate on an '<span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">-’s</span>' or a '<span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">-ly</span>' which looks bad but that’s probably a problem with the dictionary.</div>