Dom Lachowicz wrote: > Hi Allesandro, > > I've looked at your bug, and here's what I have to say on the subject: > > I think that you've confused paragraph alignment with character > alignment. What I want you to do is:
Thanks, but, no, your help did not solve the problem. Now let me state that I feel somewhat offended by the standpoint taken by the developers who have gone through the trouble of answering me. Don't misunderstand me: I appreciate your work, and more so the time spent reading my requests and answering my specific problems. Yet, all my appreciation does not justify the the superficiality with which my requests have been dismissed. I have been repeatedly been addressed with a patronizing tone, and told either to download a bidi enabled build or to turn on bidi support. Both kinds of answers implicitly take for granted that I am idiot, have not read that there exist separate bidi enabled builds, have not gone through the trouble of downloading the correct software, and finally have not taken the time or effort to figure out how to activate the *one* feature I am looking for in Abiword. Now, why should I not be entitled to a little credit? I have filed a bug report after *repeatedly* asking for feedback on the mailing list. I would not file a blatantly invalid bug report on any piece of software, if at all I can avoid it. Now, Dom, you are very kind to answers me, but your answer does not help much. I do not have the "abc", "cba", or "P" buttons on the Extra Toolbar. Could this be due to the fact that I use the following abiword package: abiword-gnome-bidi-1.0.0-1.i686.rpm? Anyhow, I'll try downloading the latest build later on tonight. I take it for granted that the "cba" button activates "right-to-left" typesetting, whereas "abc" turns on the usual "left-to-right" style for european languages. If this is the case, then I am able to turn on the "cba" feature through the "Format->Paragraph...->Right-to-left document" checkbox. Please, take notice of the fact that I am not tampering with the text alignment pop-up menu, as you hypothesized. Now, weird behavior occurs: I believe you did not read the bug report carefully enough. Let me print out a few tests for you, so that you may realize just what happens. Let me also reiterate that if screenshots are needed, I would be more than glad to produce them. I will continue using the "quick brown fox" example, but, this time, I will not type spaces between words. This is what I type: >TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDog.| And this is what I get on the screen: >|.goDzyaLehTrevOspmuJxoFnworBkciuQehT Once again, I have used vertical bars to indicate the position of the insertion caret. Up to this point, the program seems to work correctly. But, as soon as I type a space or any symbol other than a letter _the_whole_sentece_gets_reversed_! Here's the second test string: >TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDog. AnotherWord| And this is what AbiWord produces on screen: >TheQuickBrownFoxJumpsOverTheLazyDog. A|droWrehton Let me draw your attention to the fact that, after the first string gets reversed on the screen, one more letter appears in left-to-right mode (the capital "A"), then the following letters revert to right-to-left mode and appear to the right of the blinking caret. This produces the curious neologism: AdroWrethon 1BA98765432 If the letters are read according to the ordering established by the hexadecimal digits below them, you will see they form the string "AnotherWord", as should be. But, of course, the "A" should appear at the far right, as opposed to the far left. Now, Dom and company, I use word processors rarely. I am more of a Tex-nician, to stick with Donald Knuth's jargon, yet I am perfectly capable of using one. Your counterpart in this discussion is an educated computer user, a Linux system administrator, and a programmer, albeit typically I use languages other than C/C++. I have given your team detailed information concerning the weird behavior of AbiWord on my system previously, and have not been given any credit in this respect. Proof of this is that Dom has closed my bug report with the usual "Worksforme" sort of comments. It is not up to me to teach you or anybody that a piece of software that works on one system is by no means guaranteed to work anywhere else. And it definitely does not work at my site, either under Linux or under Windows. I would be only too glad to take part in a diagnostic effort to identify the cause of the problem, but you cannot expect me to reverse engineer your code and all the shared code you link to. As I write I am downloading the latest version of Abiword. I will soon follow up on this post to let you know if, by chance, the problem is solved in the latest build. Otherwise, I entreat you to earnestly look into this problem, with the aid of all the feedback you might need from me. Very truly yours, Alex Baretta ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
