[poppler] Vertical or horizontal writing?

[mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:01:40 +0100
Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>A Diumenge, 15 d'agost de 2010, mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp va escriure:
>> I think exposing the raw text to the upper layers would
>> be the reasonable starting point for various non-left-to-right
>> scripts, because it is script-independent.
>> 
>> # about the insertion of the space (U+0020) between the words,
>> # still I've not decided what is good.
>
>I don't think this makes sense, if we are being raw, we should be raw, and 
>adding a space that is not there is not being raw.
>
>So if you agree on not adding the space i will commit your patch.

Thanks, I can agree. In fact, the automatic/constant
insertion of the space is NOT the best solution for
CJK ideographic text. If the lack of the inter-word space
in raw mode is acceptable for the users of the scripts
with inter-word spaces (like Latin script), it is good
news for me.

# In CJK ideographic text, usually no space is inserted
# between words. However, modern Korean Hangul typography
# seems to have inter-word spaces.

Regards,
mpsuzuki