Re: [Freetype] Confusion about bidirectional line breaks...

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Using the normal convention of upper case being  right-to-left:
> 
> Logical: "He said: I SAW THE CAT"
> Visual:  "He said: TAC EHT WAS I"
> 
> Broken in logical order:
> 
>  He said: WAS I
>  TAC EHT
> 
> Broken in visual order (incorrect):
> 
>  He said: TAC EHT
>  WAS I
> 
> When reading a bidirectional text in Arabic or Hebrew, you never 
> go up to a previous line ... lines are always in logical order.

Thanks, now I got it.  Have you any information w.r.t. hyphenation in
the first line of the RTL text?  Something like

    He said: I UNDERSTAND THE CAT

->  He said: -REDNU I
    TAC EHT DNATS

In more complicated situations it seems to be an interative process to
get a decent spacing...


    Werner