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Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: R
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines] |
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Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:18:21 +0300 |
> From: Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:50:17 +0200
>
> I just coincidentally ended on a webpage with a vertical script (which
> surprisingly to me displayed correctly under firefox):
>
> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhaline
>
> However copypasting that into emacs, or viewing the page with Eww makes
> that text incorrectly LTR. Hence I suppose emacs doesn’t yet support
> viewing and editing TTB/BBT text as such…
>
> Have there been an attempt at that?
No.
> Anyway, what would a such change require and how much would it
> overturn the current display engine?
The low level of the display engine will need to acquire a set of
routines that work very differently from what we have there now.
And I don't even understand what is being expected from this. E.g.,
what happens when the user scrolls the window up or down? Do all the
columns change like a snake?
> would a solution to that problem possibly cover up with the problem
> I raised in the other almost-homonym thread?
Which is what?
Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Alexandre Garreau, 2021/10/27
- Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines],
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Alexandre Garreau, 2021/10/27
- Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/27
- Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Alexandre Garreau, 2021/10/27
- Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/28
- Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Alexandre Garreau, 2021/10/28
- Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/28
- Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Alexandre Garreau, 2021/10/28
- Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/28
Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Alexandre Garreau, 2021/10/28
Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines], Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/28