Hello Jonathan, I think that visual caret motion with logical selection is the best approach. I do not see visual selection as an useful feature at all (at least if it means what I understand it to mean).
If anything needs to be improved, then add, as a feature, a mode to turn off BiDi ordering in the visual display of a text fragment. This will make easier the lives of people, who edit text, which mixes together several RTL and LTR spans together with plethora of punctuation marks. Another audience for such a feature is blind computer users, who wish to edit text in Hebrew. They read it LTR in Braille, and would like to suppress the BiDi algorithm for such text. Therefore, they need to turn off BiDi ordering for a whole file. About the best way to implement such a feature (how to activate/deactivate) and whether the text is to be displayed in-line or in another window - I'm deferring to other people to make suggestions. --- Omer On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:50 +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > What happened to ivrix.org.il? > > Java Swing supports visual caret motion but logical selection. The > engineering decision for selection was based on technical realities > (read budget) rather than what was best for the bidi user. The asymmetry > of the situation never sat well with Brian Beck however. There is a chance > to change this in JavaFX, if it is perceived as adding significant value. > Is visual selection implemented in any bidi text editor? > > How much of an improvement would it be to implement visual text selection > in OpenOffice, in JavaFX? Would this be a killer feature to add to Hebrew > OOo? -- 42 is the answer to everything. Food is the answer to everything except obesity. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
